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“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“She always wanted to believe in things.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“It was decadent; it was dangerous.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Dressed all in black, with his dark hair slicked back and his eyes glittering from behind his mask, he knew he looked like the kind of bad idea that was irresistible to a certain kind of person.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Everything about it seemed designed to appeal to him: glitz, glamour, and that certain kind of debauchery that made its home in the youths of the upper class who had more time and money than sense, and who had never experienced a single consequence for their actions, and thus lived fearlessly.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He loved how he looked in makeup. Besides the simple aesthetic, he enjoyed the transgression of it, and how it transformed him into something neither this nor that.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“That summer they’d spent together when Sebastian was ten years old felt like an old bruise, swollen and tender to the touch. Everything had fallen apart so quickly after that summer had ended.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“To suggest just enough danger, just enough transgression to make a certain type of man sit up and lean in a little closer, wanting a taste.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Seduction and pickpocketing: two compulsions he just couldn’t shake.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“But it was only a small hope. The past rarely does anyone in the present any good.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He didn't want to do the work to mend their relationship; he wanted to magically undo the damage done to it.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“He was on the verge of an epiphany, or perhaps a breakdown, and he wanted nothing to do with it. He certainly didn’t want any witnesses.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“But it didn’t want to take to the skies; it didn't want anything Sebastian had to offer. It wanted to be safe, and boring, and dutiful, and it very much wanted to raise the alarm that had been its sole purpose,”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“It was sentiment that got me in this state in the first place. Heartlessness served me quite well, until I let my guard down.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Sebastian struck him, a quick backhand that cracked against the side of Whistler’s face. Because as Whistler said those words, Sebastian realised they were true, too. He might love Morgan—and that was terrifying in itself—and Morgan might even love him in return, somehow, miraculously, but he wasn't there at Sebastian side, because love wasn’t enough.”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman

“Not everyone has to be ruthless when it comes to love,”
― Arden Powell, A Thief and a Gentleman