Lionel Shriver: Frases en inglés

Lionel Shriver es escritora estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Checker and the Derailleurs

Fuente: Checker and the Derailleurs

“Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.”

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Lionel Shriver libro The Post-Birthday World

Fuente: The Post-Birthday World

“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Checker and the Derailleurs

Fuente: Checker and the Derailleurs

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: 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.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: 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.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“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.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

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Lionel Shriver libro Tenemos que hablar de Kevin

Fuente: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”

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Lionel Shriver libro Checker and the Derailleurs

Fuente: Checker and the Derailleurs