Cecelia: Oh, you idiot! You realize that’s probably the most valuable thing we own?!
Robbie: Not anymore, it isn’t.
(Source: becausemcavoys, via moviesatthetheatres)
…my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for, and deserved. And 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.
(Source: wwwwwwnnnnn, via moviesatthetheatres)
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(Source: nightinghale, via charliebronsons-moved)
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
— Atonement; Ian McEwan. (via michaelfassbendersteeth, suzywire)
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