Ian McEwan Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time. Atonement

2. Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame. Atonement

3. Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy. Sweet Tooth

4. Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no. Enduring Love

5. There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. Saturday

6. We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth Atonement

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

8. When love dies and marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation. So, against that headwind of forgetfulness I want to place my little candle of truth and see how far it throws its light. Nutshell

9. At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. Atonement

10. He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar Solar

11. Miliony lidí žijí v chudobě, třebaže máme dost prostředků k tomu, abychom to nedopustili. Znehodnocujeme biosféru, přestože víme, že je naším jediným domovem. Vyhrožujeme si navzájem atomovými zbraněmi, třebaže víme, kam to může vést. Milujeme živé tvory, ale dopouštíme masové vymírání živočíšních druhů. A pak všechno to ostatní - genocidy, mučení, zotročování, domácí násilí, zneužívání dětí, střelba ve školách, znásilňování a nespočet dalších každodenních krutosti. Žijeme s veškerým tím utrpením a vůbec nažasneme nad tím, že přesto pořád nacházíme štěstí a dokonce lásku. Umělé mysli nejsou tak dobře ochráněné. Machines Like Me

12. No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

13. There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. Saturday

14. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Atonement