“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
More from Ian McEwan
“I love you. I am going to wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.”
“…falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
“He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.”
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and…”