These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing – it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
Quotes from Ian McEwan
Don’t leave me here with my mind, I thought.
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.
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It’s a commonplace of parenting and modern genetics that parents have little or no influence on the characters of their children. You never know who you are going to get.
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.
These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus.
And there was something I’ve since noticed over the years-the mountain range that separates the naked from the clothed man. Two men on one passport.
She thought of Robbie at dinner when there had been something manic and glazed in his look. Might he be smoking the reefers she had read about in a magazine, these cigarettes that drove young men of bohemian inclination across the borders of insanity?
We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked.