Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

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. 

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. 

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

- Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro