Frases de Ian McEwan

“Se alguma coisa acontecesse com Robbie, se Cecília e Robbie jamais pudessem ficar juntos… Sua tortura secreta e a comoção pública da guerra antes pareciam mundos separados, mas agora ela se dava conta de que a guerra poderia agravar seu crime ainda mais. A única solução concebível seria o passado não ter acontecido”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“Dois ex-amantes de Molly Lane estavam parados do lado de fora da capela do crematório, de costas para o frio de fevereiro.”

Ian McEwan livro Amsterdam (novela)

“Aquela gravidade calma não era nem um pouco o estilo dele, que sempre fora ao mesmo tempo carente e austero; ansioso para ter amigos, mas incapaz de encarar a amizade como natural.”

Ian McEwan livro Amsterdam (novela)

“Ele não tinha nenhuma companheira, nenhuma esposa, nenhum George pra cuidar dele, o que talvez fosse uma bênção. Mas o que tinha em vez disso? Rolou de lado e puxou os cobertores em torno de si. O asilo, a tevê do salão durante o dia, o bingo e os velhos com seus cigarrinhos, seu mijo e sua baba. Isso ele não iria agüentar.”

Ian McEwan livro Amsterdam (novela)

“O índice ABC do último mês fora sete mil pontos mais baixo que o do mês anterior. O tempo estava se esgotando para The Judge. Ele ainda estava pensando se publicava ou não uma matéria sobre os dois irmãos gêmeos siameses unidos pelo quadril – um deles tinha o coração fraco, de modo que não podiam ser separados – que haviam conseguido emprego de funcionários públicos. Se a gente quer salvar esse jornal”, gostava de dizer Vernon na reunião editorial matinal, “todo mundo vai ter de sujar as mãos.”

Ian McEwan livro Amsterdam (novela)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

“It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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.”

Ian McEwan livro Enduring Love

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“It was always the view of my parents… that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”

Ian McEwan

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

Ian McEwan Saturday

“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

“It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan

“come back, come back to me”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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 touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“But whathappened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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 in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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.”

Ian McEwan Saturday

“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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 livro Atonement (livro)