Atonment part one key quotes - chapter thirteen

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Within the half hour
Briony would commit her crime - prolepsis
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But her brother was with Cecilia
and that was a burden lifted
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The dominant role as one guided another's
fate, was hardly mental freedom
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She had become a participant in the
drama of life beyond the nursery - Briony
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The twins were
not in danger - but irony as Lola is
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But there was a maniac threading through
the night with a dark, unfulfilled heart - Briony is on about Robbie, when its describing Paul Marshall
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Villains were not announced with hisses or soliloquies,
they did not come cloaked in black, with ugly expressions - anyone can be a villain
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If she had she
would not have commited her crime - Briony, prolepsis
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The remaining darker patch on the
ground was also a person, changing shape - Lola, shows how she has become corrupted
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It was him
wasn't it? - Briony asking Lola
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Yes, it
was him - Lola replying to Briony
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Resembled both
terror and joy - Lola's experience, ambiguous
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It was her story, the one
that was writing itself about her - Briony
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Plain as day
it was him - Briony about Robbie
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I couldn't
say for sure - Lola about the situation
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Like a
bride-to-be - Briony, extended bridal metaphor and negative representation of marriages
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She trapped herself, she marched into
the labyrinth of her own construction - Briony
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Well I can
and I will - Briony
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It might not
have been - Lola, saying it may not have been Robbie
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Briony was beginning to tell him what
had happened, exactly as she had seen it - Briony, foreshadowing
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But her brother was with Cecilia

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and that was a burden lifted

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The dominant role as one guided another's

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She had become a participant in the

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The twins were

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