Love Quotes by Ian McEwan

“... her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect.”

— Ian McEwan

But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.

— Ian Mcewan

“But the lovers are locked in, as only lovers can be.”

— Ian McEwan

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

— Ian McEwan

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

— Ian Mcewan

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

— Ian Mcewan

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

— Ian Mcewan

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.

— Ian Mcewan

But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love…

— Ian Mcewan

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

— Ian Mcewan

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love,…

— Ian Mcewan

“God's love may take the form of wrath. It can show itself to us as a calamity. This is the difficult lesson…

— Ian McEwan

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now,…

— Ian Mcewan

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for…

— Ian Mcewan

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

— Ian Mcewan

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay…

— Ian Mcewan

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,…

— Ian Mcewan

“The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could…

— Ian McEwan

“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man…

— Ian McEwan

“...[W]riting stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturisation. A world could be made in five…

— Ian McEwan

“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion…

— Ian McEwan

“When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too…

— Ian McEwan

“I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Generally,…

— Ian McEwan

And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly…

— Ian Mcewan

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the…

— Ian Mcewan

“But even I know that love doesn’t steer by logic, nor is power distributed evenly. Lovers arrive at their first kisses with…

— Ian McEwan

“Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how…

— Ian McEwan

“They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling,…

— Ian McEwan

My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.…

— Ian Mcewan

“We often told ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, talking, when we could be doing the same, lying down…

— Ian McEwan

“In theory, they have equal power over each other Leave this house. Never come back. Or I'll bring the police down on…

— Ian McEwan

“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the…

— Ian McEwan

“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck…

— Ian McEwan

“I squeezed her hand and said nothing. I knew little about Keats or his poetry, but I thought it possible that in…

— Ian McEwan

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

— Ian Mcewan

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

— Ian Mcewan

“He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he…

— Ian McEwan

“When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past.”

— Ian McEwan

“But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my…

— Ian McEwan

“The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each…

— Ian McEwan