Quotes by : Ian McEwan

She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to....

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

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

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as....

She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing,....

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally....

People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a "failure to grasp the simple truth that other people....

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

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They....

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine....