Andrew

“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One of our Japanese poets, a court lady many years ago, wrote how sad this was. She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown."
"Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro , When We Were Orphans

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”
― Jean Jacques Rosseau

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.

Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.”
― Joseph O'Neill, Netherland