Quotes by : Lionel Shriver

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing....

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned....

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting.....

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have....

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time....

I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest....

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age....

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into....