Quotes by : Lionel Shriver

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

In an era of weaponized sensitivity, participation in public discourse is growing so perilous, so fraught....

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.

Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither....

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

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of....

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

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't....