Frases de Ian McEwan

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“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)

“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“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, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

Ian McEwan livro The Daydreamer

“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”

Ian McEwan livro Saturday

“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 the beginning of morality”

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“Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”

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“I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.”

Ian McEwan livro Sweet Tooth

“Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your unconscious choice of mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”

Ian McEwan livro Enduring Love

“When anything can happen, everything matters.”

Ian McEwan livro Saturday

“… beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning…”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”

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“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“one could drown in irrelevance.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

“Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.”

Ian McEwan livro Sweet Tooth

“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 her.”

Ian McEwan livro On Chesil Beach

“She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”

Ian McEwan livro Saturday

“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 icily rational.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.”

Ian McEwan livro Saturday

“We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

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

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

Ian McEwan livro Atonement (livro)