Atonement

"She was learning the cost of her certainty."

"She had not considered herself capable of such cruelty."

"The imagination was a world of its own, separate and entire."

"She understood then what she had been mourning."

"She had to believe in the possibility of change."

"The longer she waited, the more convinced she became of the rightness of her action."

"The truth is, I've always known."

"She understood at last what she had taken from them."

"Writing offered what life could not: the chance to begin again."

"She wanted to be loved as she was, not as she pretended to be."

"She could not undo what had been done."

"How small and mean her life had become."

"It was simply a mistake, a terrible mistake that could not be undone."

"Words were weapons she had wielded thoughtlessly."

"The past haunted every present moment."

"She had chosen fiction over truth."

"She could not write her way out of this."

"Imagination was both gift and curse."

"Love demanded vulnerability."

"She wanted forgiveness, but could not ask for it."

"She had written their story wrong."

"Her imagination had betrayed them all."

"He had become the enemy in her mind."

"Regret was a burden that never lightened."

"She could not imagine a future without him."

"Words had power over her actions."

"She wanted to rewrite the past."

"How could a love poem be insincere?"

"The problem these days is that we're all such experts on the lives of others."

"She wanted to give him something, but had nothing that was hers to give."