Anna Moore

“Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That’s what they regard as the highest point of progress.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“Every situation, every person has a melody playing, even if you can’t hear it.”
― Nina Schuyler, The Translator

“If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed, a deep satisfaction – to be gained from this observation when looking back over one’s life.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World