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“You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.”
Lionel Shriver“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“The secret is that there is no secret.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin“Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin