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Atonement Quotes

“Now go and wash the blood off your face.”
— Sister Drummond, Atonement
Tagged: Blood, Healing
“Dear Cecilia, Please don't throw this away without reading it. As you'll have seen from the notepaper, I'm here at St. Thomas's, doing my nurses' training. I decided not to take up my place at Cambridge. I decided I wanted to make myself useful, do something practical. But no matter how hard I work, no matter how long the hours, I can't escape from what I did and what it meant, the full extent of which I'm only now beginning to grasp. Cee, please write and tell me we can meet. Your sister, Briony.”
— Briony Tallis (Age 18), Atonement
Tagged: letters back home
“Yes. I saw him. I saw him with my own eyes.”
— Briony Tallis (Age 13), Atonement
Tagged: Witness
“So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. Which ever since I've... ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion... but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.”
— Briony Tallis (Age 77), Atonement
Tagged: Weakness, Happiness, Missed Opportunities
“I won't say a word. Wake me before 7:00, would you? Thanks so much. You won't hear another word from me. Promise.”
— Robbie Turner, Atonement
Tagged: Vow of Silence
“Cecilia Tallis: [crying] I don't know how I could've been so ignorant about myself... so... so stupid. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? You knew before I did.

Robbie Turner: Why're you crying?

Cecilia Tallis: Don't you know?

Robbie Turner: Yes, I know exactly.
[kisses her]”
— Robbie Turner, Atonement
Tagged: Love, Crying, Kissing
“[Robbie has just broken a vase belonging to Cecilia's family]
Cecilia Tallis: You idiot... You realize that's probably the most valuable thing we own?

Robbie Turner: Not anymore it isn't.”
— Robbie Turner, Atonement
Tagged: Family Heirlooms, Destruction
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
— Robbie Turner, Atonement
Tagged: Love, Love Story
“I love you. I am going to wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.”
— Ian McEwan, Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Tagged: I Still Love You, Waiting For Love
“…falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: Love, Glance, Love at First Sight, admiration
“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: Confusion, Misunderstanding, Truth, realilty, Unhappy
“I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.”
— Robbie Turner, Atonement
Tagged: love quotes, Movie Love Quotes
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
— Robbie, Atonement
Tagged: Romantic Speeches, Love, romance, Love Story
“He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Childhood, Family, Raising Kids, Dads
“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.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Passionate, Love, Life, True Love
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