How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask." Keep going, " Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

About This Quote

In the film "Atonement," Ian McEwan’s main character, Briony Tallis, is a young girl who witnesses a fight between her older sister and a family friend. She tells a lie to cover up the incident and in doing so she alters the lives of several people. The fact that she gets away with it is the source of her pride. But when she tries to explain what happened to one of the people she hurt, she is faced with a series of lies and deceptions that prove uncatchable.

Source: Split: A Memoir Of Divorce

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