
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
Источник: Atonement
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“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
Источник: Atonement
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
Источник: Atonement
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”
Источник: On Chesil Beach
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
Источник: Atonement
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”
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Источник: On Chesil Beach (2007)
“… falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
Источник: Atonement
“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
Источник: Atonement
“It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.”
Источник: Atonement
“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”
Источник: Atonement
“But whathappened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
Источник: Atonement
“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”
Источник: Atonement