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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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.
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.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
She always wanted to believe in things.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
