Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty ...

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

Sweet Tooth: A Novel (ed. Anchor, 2012) - ISBN: 9780385536837

Ian McEwan Quotes

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early...

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early...

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early...

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early...