Big Brother
Lionel Shriver
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.”
“Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.”
“Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.”
“So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.”
“The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.”
“Only in retrospect do I appreciate that this “doing your bit” is a deadly misapprehension of the nature of familial ties. Better understanding them now, I find blood relationships rather frightening. What is wonderful about kinship is also what is horrible about it: there is no line in the sand, no natural limit to what these people can reasonably expect of you.”
“Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.”
“But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.”
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen.”
“However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.”
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Book Keywords:
family-relationships, internet, family, obesity, marriage, sisters, sibling-relationships, satisfaction, hunger, siblings
