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“For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“When you are in a room with a murderer, there are only two kinds of people. One is the killer. The other is the murdered. Which one would you rather be, at any given time?”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“I'm angry because you think everything happened by chance but there are billions of people on this planet and I found you so if you're saying I could just as well have found someone else then I can't bear your bloody mathematics!" Her fists had been clenched. He stood there looking at her for several minutes. Then he said that he loved her. It was the first time. They never stopped arguing and they never slept apart; he spent an entire working life calculating probabilities and she was the most improbable person he ever met. She turned him upside-down.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Children live in the same world we do.To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a vanity.We want to be able to tell ourselves what good parents we are, that we're doing our best.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin