Frases de Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver é uma jornalista e escritora bestseller americana, famosa por sua obra We Need to Talk About Kevin. Nasceu em Gastonia, Carolina do Norte, EUA, no seio de uma família extremamente religiosa, sendo o seu pai pastor presbiteriano. Mudou o seu nome quando tinha 15 anos porque gostava da forma como soava. Frequentou a Universidade de Columbia. Já viveu em Nairobi, Bangcoc e Belfast. Neste momento, divide o seu tempo entre Londres e Nova Iorque.

Colabora com diversos jornais, entre outros, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer e The Economist.

É casada com um músico de jazz. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Maio 1957   •   Outros nomes لیونل شریور
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Lionel Shriver: Frases em inglês

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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

Lionel Shriver livro We Need to Talk About Kevin

Fonte: We Need to Talk About Kevin