The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

“I’ve told no one, sir. Even though they believe it an ogre’s bite and hate me for it.” “Let them go on believing it, young comrade. Ten times worse if they learn the truth of how you received it.”

Oh?

“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.”

Tears

“Farewell then, Axl.” “Farewell, my one true love.”

I love them