Property Quotes

“After all, a forgivable shyness and social discomfort could easily be mistaken for their more aggressive counterparts: aloofness and hostility.”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

“The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people...”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

“When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it.”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

“Mourning the death of strangers is a blunted butter knife experience, bearing no resemblance to the slicing, machete-like bereavement of losing someone you know.”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

“Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive.”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

“rills ran deeper—so that if you could compare them to ice cream, it was more to the sort so hard that you couldn’t ram a spoon into the carton.”
― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain

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― Lionel Shriver, Property: Incisive Short Stories of Power and Possession from America to Britain