“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 Shriver , book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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