He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.
("We Need to Talk About Kevin")
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The secret is that there is no secret.Lionel Shriver
In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood...
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Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.
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It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
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In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
Lionel Shriver
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