Briony Flashcards
fountain scene
‘she was like a bride to be who begins to feel her sickening qualms about the whole enterprise on the way to the church’
the play and initial imagination
‘it was her play she was writing, she was the director and had cast herself as her star’
reading robbies letter
‘in her mind, robbie turner was transformed into a maniac’
library incident, walks in on them making love
‘she would never be able to describe it; how she had seen her sister’s torment and her relief’
false accusation
‘she had persuaded herself that she was only delaying the moment when she would call out his name’
realisation of her mistake
‘she was beginning to get the full grasp of what she had done and what it had meant’
attempt at atonement
‘no atonement for god, or novelists even if they are atheists’
nurse briony
‘the work was done, the work was done’
realising the impact
‘she would never undo the damage. she was unforgivable’
brutal reality of war
‘she had learned, when she was on night duty to concentrate on the next task and forget everything beyond it’
feels isolated
‘but no one would, and there was no one she could tell it to’
moment of compassion, confronting her emotional turmoil
‘the past few years had taught her the best way of managing her thoughts and feelings’
french soldier, relationships destroyed
‘it was a reminder of a time when she was truly loved’
desire for forgiveness
‘she longed to have someone else’s life, to be anywhere but here, to be anyone but herself’
