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

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”

Ian McEwan book Saturday

Source: Saturday

“It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

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

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“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.”

Ian McEwan book Enduring Love

Source: Enduring Love

“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.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

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

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

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Source: On Chesil Beach (2007)

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

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“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.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

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

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“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”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

Ian McEwan book Saturday

Source: Saturday

“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach