Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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.

But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then--who knows?-- maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.

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.

Maybe all of us at Hailsham had our little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings.

We both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

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.