Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

Lionel Shriver


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We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.

Lionel Shriver


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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés life loss attachment



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He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés ambiguity guessing



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What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.

Lionel Shriver

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You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

Lionel Shriver

Mots clés innocence gullibility good-hearted



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I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

Lionel Shriver

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You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

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...I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.

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The gap between most people’s capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

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