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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
She always wanted to believe in things.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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.
