“ I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. Ian Mcewan
“ At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, fo… Ian Mcewan
“ But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me Ian Mcewan
“ She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in… Ian Mcewan
“ Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in… Ian Mcewan
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to ins… Ian Mcewan
“ Not everyone knows what it is to have your father’s rival’s penis inches from your nose. Ian Mcewan
“ The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a pass… Ian Mcewan
“ Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear. Ian Mcewan
“ However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them. Ian Mcewan
“ It was always the view of my parents, Emily said, that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. Ian Mcewan
“ A strange mood has seized the almost-educated young. They're on the march, angry at times, but mostly needful, longing for authority's blessing, its validation of their chosen . The decline of the Wes… Ian Mcewan
“ 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… Ian Mcewan
