Ian McEwan - Love Quotes

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Falling in love could be achieved in a single word — a glance.

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When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

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That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

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But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

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The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation—it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

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In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

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All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.

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When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

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I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee

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