Food was a responsibility, a ward she was determined to go by, ... She'd force herself through to the last forkful even to the point of nausea, because she didn't understand that it was there for her and not the other way round.
Lionel ShriverHe's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.
Lionel Shriver...it's not all it's cracked up to be, having real emotions. I know that with the most dazzling men there have been times I've been terribly bored and I am sure they've been equally bored with me. Then much of life is indeed boring, and that's nobody's fault....Myself, I've been in the very arms of a beloved and felt nothing, when the only choice was whether to admit I felt nothing or to lie. The hardest thing about loving someone is those moments when you're not. And there are inevitablty such moments; the amount of trust required to get past them is stupendous.
Lionel ShriverTag: love
If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you could only obtain new information by admitting you didn’t know it already, savvy required an apprenticeship as a naive twit. You had to ask crude, obvious questions…you had to sit still while worldly-wise warhorses…fired withering glances as if you were born yesterday.
Well, Edgar was born yesterday for the moment, although his tolerance for being treated liked a simpleton was in short supply. He’d needed to rattle off a multitude of stupid questions before he embraced his next incarnation as an insider. The trouble was that savvy coated your brain in plastic like a driver’s license: nothing more could get in. Hence the point at which you decided you knew everything was exactly the point at which you became an ignorant dipshit.
Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn't the real problem, though it took him a long time to figure out what was. She needed resistance, the very quality that metal most demonstrably offered up. Suddenly Glynis had no difficulty to overcome, no hard artisan's life with galleries filching half the too-small price of a mokume brooch that had taken three weeks to forge. No, her husband made a good living, and if she slept late and dawdled the afternoon away reading Lustre, American Craft Magazine and Lapidary Journal, the phone bill would still get paid. For that matter, she needed need itself. She could overcome her anguish about embarking on an object that, once completed, might not meet her exacting standards only if she had no choice. In this sense, his helping had hurt her. By providing the financial cushion that should have facilitated making all the metal whathaveyou she liked, he had ruined her life. Wrapped in a slackening bow, ease was a poisonous present.
Lionel ShriverTag: artists need perfectionism
The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with their lives, as if everything hinges on one decision. But whichever direction you go there are going to be upsides and downsides. You're dealing with a set of trade-offs, and not one course in comparison to which all the others are crap.....There are varying advantages and disadvantages to each competing future. But I didn't want to have one bad and one good. In both, everything is all right, really. Everything is all right.
Lionel ShriverKucağıma aldığımda, kollarımda sırrımı ele veren bir kasılma sezebildiğinden emindim. Agucuk gugucuk yaparken, sesimdeki hafif sabırsız tonlamadan, bunun benim için doğal olmadığını anladığından emindim. Dahası, okuduğuma göre -özür dilerim, sen okumuştun- bebeklerde tepki uyandırmak için onlara gülümsemek önemliydi. Gülümsedim. Gülümsedim, gülümsedim. Yüzüm acıyana kadar gülümsedim ama yüzüm gerçekten acıdığında bunu anladığından emindim. Ne zaman kendimi gülümsemeye zorlasam, içimden gelerek yapmadığımı biliyordu, çünkü hiç karşılık vermedi.
Lionel ShriverHe wasn't mad, he was sad.
Lionel ShriverTag: sadness pathos lionel-shriver
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
Lionel ShriverTag: despair fury hiding-our-inner-desires kevin lionel-shriver
Was our life together that unbearable?
Lionel ShriverTag: relationships lionel-shriver feelings-etc key-quote
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