When she found a place of her own
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Ian McEwan
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Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

By Ian McEwan

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

By Ian McEwan

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

By Ian McEwan

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

By Ian McEwan

She turned her face into the pillow and let her tears drain into it, and felt that yet more was lost, when there was no witness to her sorrow.

By Ian McEwan

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

By Ian McEwan
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