Amel > Amel's Quotes

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“How quickly the dead faded into each other,”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Children hated generously, capriciously.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Birth, death, and frailty in between. Rise and fall- this was the doctor's business, and it was literature's too.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement