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Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
“Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”
“I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.”
“Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.”
“It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.”
“Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. ”
“It's beautiful here and we're still unhappy”
“Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.”
“I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.”
“No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.”
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