“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband. The novel, Shriver's 7th, won the 2005 Orange Prize, a U.K.-based prize for female authors of any country writing in English. In 2011 the novel was adapted into a film.
“People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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“The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
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