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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?
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?
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.
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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.
