But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: rules
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: humor relationships
I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: parenting unconditional-love
...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
Lionel Shriver...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: motherhood
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: self-centeredness
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: vanity
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: story trapped mortified
My own apathy is bone chilling.
Lionel ShriverStichwörter: apathy
The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.
Stichwörter: happiness practice work joy effort
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