Claire

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

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach