Lionel Shriver

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe.

— Lionel Shriver

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

— Lionel Shriver