451 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

. . . each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

When we were new, we used to worry that because we often couldn’t see the Sun from mid-store,we’d grow weaker and weaker.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow.