"Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life."

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Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.331, Profile Books

Lionel Shriver

#Loss Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.”
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.”

Source : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Until Death”
“Wisdom canâ€™t prevent the storm.”
“Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.”
“Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back”
“Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.”
“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”
“A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?”

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