Lynn Okon

“Real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The last thing we want to admit is that the forbidden fruit on which we have been gnawing since reaching the magic age of twenty-one is the same mealy Golden Delicious that we stuff into our children’s lunch boxes.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Fear is an isometric exercise”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin