Atonement - Quotations

• Briony: 'she was one of those children possessed with the desire to have the world just so'
• Briony: 'for what she knew, she knew'
• imagination itself was a source of secrets
• within the half hour, Briony would commit her crime
• Robbie: 'I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame'
• Briony: 'her controlling demon'
• Paul: 'Bite it'
• Briony: 'She had no doubt. She could describe him. There was nothing she could not describe'
• let the guilty bury the innocent
• Briony: 'poor vain and vulnerable Lola...what luck that was for Lola...to marry her rapist'