Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.
("Atonement")
More Quotes from Ian McEwan:
She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.Ian McEwan
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 the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
Ian McEwan
Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...
Ian McEwan
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Ian McEwan
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
Ian McEwan
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Ian McEwan
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.Rhona Mitra
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie