Ian McEwan Quotes
When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear, "He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day.
Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.
...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.
I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.
I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!
He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.
In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.
...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was transforming herself into a separate person.
Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.
It was always the view of my parents, " Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?
Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.
In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.
It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation.
Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.
She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?