Ian Mcewan

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#person

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#change

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

— Ian Mcewan

#love #love

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

— Ian Mcewan

#dreams #fantasy #imagination #life #dreams

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#love

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#life #life

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination

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

#despair #fingernails #manicure #nails #life

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. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#love

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

— Ian Mcewan

#love