“Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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.
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
