Atonement

Ian McEwan

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”

“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.”

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”

“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”

“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”

“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”

“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”

“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”

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