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 ShriverWe shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
Lionel ShriverThough surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel ShriverTag: life loss attachment
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
Lionel ShriverWhat is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.
Lionel ShriverTag: cool
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 ShriverTag: innocence gullibility good-hearted
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 ShriverTag: apathy
You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.
Lionel ShriverTag: patience
...I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.
Lionel ShriverThe 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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