Alexei Karenin: You begged me for my forgiveness.
Anna Karenina: But I didn't die and now I have to live with it.
Count Vronsky: I love you.
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love.
Anna Karenina: I am not ashamed of who I am or what I've done. Are you ashamed for me?
Alexei Karenin: I must warn you about something.
Anna Karenina: Warn me?
Alexei Karenin: You may, by indiscretion, give the world occasion to talk about you.
Leon Tallis: What do you say, Cee? Does the hot weather make you behave badly? Good heavens, you're blushing.
Cecilia Tallis: Just hot in here, that's all.
Briony Tallis, aged 13: Cee?
Cecilia Tallis: Yes?
Briony Tallis, aged 13: Why don't you talk to Robbie anymore?
Cecilia Tallis: I do. We just move in different circles, that's all.
Cecilia Tallis: My brother and I found the two of them down by the lake.
Police Inspector: You didn't see anyone else?
Cecilia Tallis: I wouldn't necessarily believe everything Briony tells you. She's rather fanciful.
Robbie Turner: ...if all we have rests in a few moments in a library three and a half years ago, then I don't know... I don't.
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie... look at me. Look at me. Come back. Come back to me.
Leon Tallis: Guess who we met on the way in.
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie.
Leon Tallis: Told him to join us tonight.
Cecilia Tallis: Oh, Leon, you didn't.
Cecilia Tallis: Come back. Come back to me.
Colette: It's the hand that holds the pen that writes history.
Colette: I Can Read You Like The Top Line of an Optician's Chart.
Colette: My name is Gabrielle Colette and the hand that holds the pen writes history.
Domino Harvey: If you're wondering what's true and what isn't, fuck off, because it's none of your goddamn business.
Domino Harvey: I saved her... And when she is older, a woman named Domino will tell her that there is only one conclusion to every story... We all fall down.
Joan Clarke: Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
Jackie Price: How you doing?
Jack Starks: Better now.
Join the mailing list
Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.