Lionel Shriver citations

Lionel Shriver [ˈlaɪənl ˈʃɹaɪvə], née Margaret Ann Shriver le 18 mai 1957 à Gastonia en Caroline du Nord, est une femme de lettres et journaliste américaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. mai 1957   •   Autres noms لیونل شریور
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Lionel Shriver: Citations en anglais

“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”

Lionel Shriver livre Checker and the Derailleurs

Source: Checker and the Derailleurs

“But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.”

Lionel Shriver livre We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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