Quotes by : Lionel Shriver

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and....

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

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero,....

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

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier....

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive....

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!""Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't....

Individually, the experience of most people was of accelerating impotence and incomprehension. They lived....

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

The secret is that there is no secret.