“How old do you have to be before you know the difference between...” – Robbie Turner, Atonement ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Briony]

How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen before you can own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen old enough to be left to die on the side of the road! Did you know that?

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Robbie Turner Five years ago you didn't care about telling the truth. You and all your family, you just assumed that for all my education, I was still little better than a servant, still not to be trusted. Thanks to you, they were able to close ranks and throw me to the **** wolves. Paul Marshall Bite it. You have to bite it. Cecelia You idiot! You realise this is probably the most valuable thing we own. Robbie Not any more, it isn't.