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Atonement Flashcards

1
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“refugees … war”

part 1, page 8

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“refugees from a bitter domestic civil war”

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“all … freckled”

part 1, page 9

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“all three were ginger-haired and freckled”

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“if it survived … Tallis’”

part 1, page 24

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“if it survived the war, the reasoning went, then it could survive the Tallis’”

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“by … responsibility”

part 1, page 30

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“by this gesture, he assumed full responsibility”

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“what strange … her”

part 1, page 38

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“what strange power did he have over her”

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“the … invention”

part 1, page 41

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“the truth had become as ghostly as invention”

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“as she … leaf”

part 1, page 54

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“as she passed she felt him touch her lightly on her forearm. Or it may have been a leaf”

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“he … bite it”

part 1, page 62

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“he crossed and uncrossed his legs. Then he took a deep breath. ‘Bite it’ he said softly. ‘You’ve got to bite it”

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“illness … should”

part 1, page 66

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“illness had stopped her giving her children all a mother should”

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“she knew … duty”

part 1, page 69

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“she knew that even if the knives were not poised above her optic nerve, she would attend to her nephews only out of duty”

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“now … begun”

part 1, page 91

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“now finally, with the exercise of will, his adult life had begun”

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“no one … twins”

part 1, page 100

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“no one in the Tallis household was looking after the Quincey twins”

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“it was … everything”

part 1, page 113

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“it was wrong to open people’s letters, but it was right, it was essential for her to know everything”

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“her … fight”

part 1, page 123

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“her immediate understanding was that she had interrupted an attack, a hand to hand fight”

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“i love … change”

part 1, page 128

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“i love England in a heat wave. It’s a different country. All the rules change”

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“this decision … life”

part 1, page 144

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“this decision, as he was to acknowledge many times, transformed his life”

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“how like … prompting”

part 1, page 147

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“how like Hermione Lola was, to remain guiltless while others destroyed themselves at her prompting”

18
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“within … crime”

part 1, page 156

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“within the half hour Briony would commit her crime”

19
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“everyday … darkness”

part 1, page 163

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“everyday sounds magnified by darkness”

20
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“she … voice”

part 1, page 164

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“she heard the helplessness in Lola’s voice”

21
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“listen … him”

part 1, page 167

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“listen to me. I couldn’t mistake him. I’ve known him all my life. I saw him”

22
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“Lola … truth”

part 1, page 168

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“Lola was required only to remain silent about the truth”

23
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“it was … child’s”

part 2, page 192

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“it was a perfect leg, pale, smooth, small enough to be a child’s”

24
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“another … own”

part 2, page 202

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“another vanished life that was once his own”

25
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“his … survival”

part 2, page 217

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“his thoughts had shrunk to the small hard point of his own survival”

26
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“the quantity … remembered”

part 2, page 223

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“the quantity of blood obscured the textbook details he remembered”

27
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“yes … lie”

part 2, page 228

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“yes, she was just a child. But not every child sends a man to prison with a lie”

28
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“mother … vaporised”

part 2, page 239

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“mother and child had been vaporised”

29
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“it was … front”

part 2, page 249

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“it was not difficult to choose between these circles of suffering - the sea, the beach and the front”

30
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” … bastards”

part 2, page 257

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“those poor bastards”

31
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“let … evidence”

part 2, page 262

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“let the guilty bury the innocence, and let no one change the evidence”

32
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“I promise … me”

part 2, page 265

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“I promise you won’t hear another word from me”

33
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“Briony … Milton”

part 3, page 275

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“Briony contemplated a ghostly parallel life in which she was at Girton, reading Milton”

34
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“physical … horizons”

part 3, page 275

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“physical discomfort helped close down Briony’s mental horizons”

35
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“the … banana”

part 3, page 296

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“the leg was black and soft, like an overripe banana”

36
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“barely … rapist”

part 3, page 324

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“barely more than a child, prised open and taken - to marry her rapist”

37
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“the process … down”

epilogue, page 354

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“the process will be slow, but my brain, my mind is closing down”

38
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“Lord … Marshall”

(epilogue, page 357

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“Lord and lady Marshall”

39
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“how … reunion”

epilogue, page 366

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“how delightful to be at the heart of such a good-willed reunion”

40
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“my fifty … over”

epilogue, page 369

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“my fifty-nine year assignment is over”

41
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“my forensic … alive”

epilogue, page 370

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“my forensic memoir could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive”

42
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“it was … all”

epilogue, page 371

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“it was always an impossible task … the attempt was all”

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