Quotes from book

On Chesil Beach

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

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“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

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

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Page 166.
Source: On Chesil Beach (2007)

“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

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“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach

“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach