Nancy

“But I've never met anybody whose life has taken a sudden turn for the worse who thought a reversal of fortune was just what they had coming to them.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“The tragedy of love....is that it is only possible to love perfectly a person who is lost to you; only a lost person, lodged in a place before the narrow, clumsy gates of language, could ever understand you perfectly.”
― Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving: A Novel

“While crude survival from one day to the next might be every human's ultimate animal goal, for generations the Mandible family had managed to dress up the project as considerably more exalted.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”
― Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World