Ian Mcewan Love Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.

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.

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

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.

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.