"Amsterdam" Quotes
"Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan is a darkly comic novel about two old friends whose moral and professional conflicts escalate into a tragic and ironic confrontation.
fiction | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The dead have no power, and the very thought of them can be sweet.
Life is full of small betrayals.
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
Before the end of the night, he would kill a man. For the first time in his life, he knew it.
In the murder business, there was no such thing as a minor detail.
Every choice he made was both a renunciation and a plenitude.
He knew that what he did was necessary. The world was full of unthinkable acts and the only way to live was to ignore them.
There was an exhilaration in making and executing plans for murder.
He felt an odd satisfaction in this act of conciliation. He had done the right thing, and the thought of it pleased him.
He had a sudden vision of what it would be like to kill someone, and he was filled with a wild, feverish excitement.
