Best Ian Mcewan Lines
- When anything can happen, everything matters. Everything Matters
- He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. All
- When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing… All
- No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. Dealt
- At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. Any
- ...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. Band
- He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die. Die
- No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. Bed
- i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. Going Mad
- was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial? Denial
- Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and… Beginning
- Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish… Acted
- These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on… B C
- This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… Affection
- He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible… Believed
- He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the… Acknowledge
- 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… Bully
- He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the… Atonement
- Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? Any
- A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken Gesture
- Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception… All
- Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like… According
- If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died,… Died
- Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure… Close
- In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and… Anyone
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