Kevin z rozkoszą opisał sposób, w jaki ten trzynastolatek chciał stać się sławny: W środku nocy, około godziny 3.00, starsze małżeństwo zwróciło mu uwagę, że zbyt głośno słucha płyty zespołu The Monkees. W najbliższy weekend córka znalazła ich ciała leżące w łóżku, rozcięte od krocza do gardła i wypatroszone.
- To okropne - powiedziałam. - Nie wiedziałam, że jeszcze ktoś słucha The Monkees.
Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]
Lionel ShriverTag: kindness
He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.
Lionel ShriverTag: attachment vulnerable
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
Lionel ShriverFrankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
Lionel ShriverI didn't put in my diaphragm' I mumbled when we were through.
You stirred, 'Is it dangerous?'
'It's very dangerous,' I said.
Indeed, just about any stranger could have turned up nine months later. We might as well have left the door unlocked.
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
Lionel ShriverThe very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.
Lionel ShriverHe'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every remaining day to the fullest - or quite the opposite: an evasion. An equally ardent determination to distract herself, from what only she could know, and thus a complete failure to inhabit her life in the scarcest respect.
Lionel ShriverThe energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were not doing would take any energy, but it did.
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