Lionel Shriver: Frases en inglés (página 2)

“But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.”

“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”

“Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.”

“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”

“Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.”

“I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.”

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”

“Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.”

“We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.”

“Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.”

“Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.”

“… some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.”

“The secret is that there is no secret.”