Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
("We Need to Talk About Kevin")
More Quotes from Lionel Shriver:
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.Lionel Shriver
Time itself made all things rare.
Lionel Shriver
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
Lionel Shriver
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.
Lionel Shriver
But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.
Lionel Shriver
We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
Lionel Shriver
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Discomfort QuotesAmbition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
Rainn Wilson
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman