Saturday Quotes
“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”
&#; Ian McEwan, Saturday
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“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”
&#; Ian McEwan, Saturday
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“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
&#; Ian McEwan, Saturday
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“When anything can happen, everything matters.”
&#; Ian McEwan, Saturday
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“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”
&#; Ian McEwan, Saturday
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“The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psycho
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“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
Ch. 2
After watching the early morning news, which is mostly preoccupied with conflict and disaster, Perowne muses upon the kettle he's using to brew coffee: although simple, it's a marvel of engineering, one more example of improvements people take for granted while harshly condemning everything about the modern world. Instead of focusing on the negative aspects of the world, people should realize the wonderful advances provided by the modern era, abstaining from wholeheartedly criticizing it.
“As the shelves and drawers emptied, and the boxes and bags filled, he saw that no one owned anything really. It’s all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we’ll desert them in the end.”
Ch. 5
In this scene, Henry is reminiscing about the death of Lily, Rosalind's mother. He thinks, “It took a day to dismantle Lily’s existence.” The experience afforded by his family's actions in emptying Lily's house of her possessions allows Perowne to realize something profou
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Saturday is certainly a unique novel. Its three hundred pages chronicle only a single day in the life of Henry Perowne, neurosurgeon, on his very eventful day off from work. Written from the limited perspective of Perowne himself, the reader essentially hears, feels, and sees what Perowne does, even experiencing his thought processes as he goes about his day.
His day begins early, as he wakes up around a.m. and coincidentally watches a burning plane fly along the skyline and, presumably, crash. This event, mentions of which recur throughout the novel, comes to represent both the uncertainty of the real nature of events and the culture's tendency to suspect nefarious activity where there might not be any. After the crash, Perowne visits his son, Theo, in the kitchen and talks with him before retiring back to bed and making love with his wife.
When he wakes up again, he leaves for his standing weekly game of squ
“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
“When anything can happen, everything matters.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Saturday
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