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

“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

“Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

“Jayne was left an only child after her younger sister committed suicide in adolescence (a tragedy, yes, but one whose psychic statute of limitations might have run out by now - not that you'd get his wife to relinquish the trauma , which seemed to confer the special-protection status of landmark architecture.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047