Lionel Shriver, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

"The only way my head was truly going somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not to a different airport."

"You were ambitious -- for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously."