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Quotes About Love

It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We were right for each other once. Whether we always will be, that's anyone's guess.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there's nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can't excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn't know better.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though it goes the other way.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So I know just how much it matters to you that people who love one another are brought together, even after many years.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Yes, I do love my husband. I didn't at first. I didn't at first for a long time. When I left Darlington Hall all those years ago, I never realized I was really, truly leaving. I believe I thought of it as simply another ruse, Mr. Stevens, to annoy you. It was a shock to come out here and find myself actually married. For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Boatman, I've spoken honestly to you, and I hope it doesn't cast your earlier judgement of us in doubt. For I suppose there's some would hear my words and think our love flawed and broken. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For some reason, we called it umbrella sex; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were an umbrella.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps they hadn't met for a long time. A long, long time. Perhaps when they last held each other like that, they were still young.' 'Do you mean, Manager, that they lost each other?' She was quiet for another moment. 'Yes,' she said, eventually. 'That must be it. They lost each other. And perhaps just now, just by chance, they found each other again.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Abiding love that has endured the years—that we see only rarely. When we do, we're only too glad to ferry the couple together.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I wish I could go out and walk and run and skateboard and swim in lakes. But I can't because my mother has Courage. So instead I get to stay in bed and be sick. I'm glad about this. I really am.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Josie and I really loved each other, that was the truth at the time. No one can claim you misled or tricked them. But now we're no longer kids, we have to wish each other the best and go our different ways. It couldn't have worked out, me going to college, trying to compete with all those lifted kids. I've got my own plans now, and that's how it should be. But that was no lie, Klara. And in a funny way, it still isn't a lie now.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
when travellers speak of their most cherished memories, it's impossible for them to disguise the truth. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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 I think 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
I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I keep thinking about this river . . . 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 is too strong. They've got to let go . . . 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
Because whatever the song was really about, in my head, when I was dancing, I had my own version. You see, I imagined it was about this woman who'd been told she couldn't have babies. But then she'd had one, and she was so pleased, and she was holding it ever so tightly to her breast, really afraid something might separate them, and she's going baby, baby, never let me go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm sure she barely knew the meaning of loneliness with you here.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro