Children live in the same world we do.To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a vanity.We want to be able to tell ourselves what good parents we are, that we're doing our best.

Lionel Shriver

Tag: p-169

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I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.

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I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so utterly uninteresting that I could faint. And that's when you know you're in love; the tedium isn't unbearable, it's lovely.

Lionel Shriver

Tag: love

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Time itself makes all things rare.

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But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

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So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.

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