Ian Mcewan Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Left Alone, Wanted

• It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.

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  Children, House, Ordinary

• Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

  Ian Mcewan

  Football, Children, Stupid

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

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  Children, Groups, Close Friends

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

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  Sweet, Children, Pain

• For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

• Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Way

  1992 Black Dogs, preface.

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