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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas QUOTES

1 " After all, a forgivable shyness and social discomfort could easily be mistaken for their more aggressive counterparts: aloofness and hostility. "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

2 " The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people... "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

3 " Mourning the death of strangers is a blunted butter knife experience, bearing no resemblance to the slicing, machete-like bereavement of losing someone you know. "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

4 " Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive. "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

5 " rills ran deeper—so that if you could compare them to ice cream, it was more to the sort so hard that you couldn’t ram a spoon into the carton. "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

6 " When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it. "

― Lionel Shriver , Property: Stories Between Two Novellas