Atonement Quotes
A collection of the best quotes from Atonement by your favorite characters including Cecilia Tallis, Briony Tallis and Robbie Turner.
Robbie Turner: [voiceover] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame. • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
Cecilia Tallis: You idiot... You realize that's probably the most valuable thing we own?
Robbie Turner: Not anymore it isn't.
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Cecilia Tallis: [crying] I don't know how I could've been so ignorant about myself... so... so stupid. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? You knew before I did.
Robbie Turner: Why're you crying?
Cecilia Tallis: Don't you know?
Robbie Turner: Yes, I know exactly.
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Robbie Turner: I'm sorry, you weren't meant to see that. It was the wrong version.
Cecilia Tallis: What was in the right one?
Robbie Turner: It was...
Cecilia Tallis: Not so anatomical?
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Robbie Turner: Have you been in touch with your family?
Cecilia Tallis: No I told you I wouldnt. Leon waited outside the hospital last week I just pushed past him.
Robbie Turner: Cee, you dont owe me anything.
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie didnt you read my letters? "Had I been allowed to visit you? Had they let me, every day, I would have been there every day.
Robbie Turner: Yes but, if all we have, rests on a few moments in a library three and a half years ago then I am not sure, I dont know...
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie, look at me, come back, come back to me.
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Cecilia Tallis: I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.
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Briony - 18 years old: I am very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused you. I am very, very sorry...
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Briony Tallis, aged 13: Lola, can I tell you something? Something really terrible?
Lola Quincey: Yes please.
Briony Tallis, aged 13: What's the worse word you can possibly imagine?
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Paul Marshall: Bite it... You've got to bite it...
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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.
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