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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.