A Better Life Quotes

“Real guilt isn't something you parade in front of other people; it makes you want to crawl down a sewer drain and pull the manhole cover over your head. This is guilt as display, guilt as moral one-upmanship.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“He'd already catalogued a curious selectivity when it came to which news stories super exercised his mother and elder sister. Neither would-be activist ever seemed especially upset by the Chinese persecution of Uighurs, for example, or by the Iranian theocracy's repression of women, although you'd think that anyone obsessed with "social justice" would care about modern-day concentration camps, and self-avowed feminists would logically find distressing stories of young women murdered by morality police for not wearing headscarves.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“Yet there was surely an element of courage - a more substantive courage than the kind required to select a controversial paint color - in sticking to an unpopular perspective even at the price of appearing despicable.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“Adjacency to degeneracy means you get most of the fun without having to accept the consequences.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life: A Novel

“everyone likes to hang with bad boys,” Tyler said. “Adjacency to degeneracy means you get most of the fun without having to accept the consequences.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life: A Novel

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― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life