Ian McEwan - Moment Quotes

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She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

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

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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 to heaven. It was like waking up.

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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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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

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I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

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It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

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Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

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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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