Miriam

“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale.”
― H.G. Wells, The Complete Novels of H.G. Wells

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day