Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.
Kazuo IshiguroIt had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Kazuo IshiguroI discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
Kazuo IshiguroAnd what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.
Kazuo Ishiguro