Littles Quotes by Ian McEwan

11 Littles quotes by Ian McEwan

McEwan’s prose turns the mundane into a quiet drama, and these eleven short quotes capture that delicate balance. The lines read like a brief, thoughtful pause amid larger narratives.

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Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't…

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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a…

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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool…

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The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a…

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It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the…

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It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had…

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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing…

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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and…

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“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of…

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None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as…

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