Ian Mcewan, Atonement

Quotes

• “She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, ...”
• “The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrac...”
• “A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from...”
• “He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That w...”
• “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now se...”
• “At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”
• “Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
• “And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”