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“(Ursula) She was a boss babe running a business, and doing it in style.”
― Lily Hart, Black Magic: How to Be a Bad Witch

“And no doubt, my boy, you believe today’s world to be a far more evil place than the one of thirty years ago, is that it? Why is it, do you suppose, my boy? Is the world really getting more evil? Is Homo sapiens degenerating as a species?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“I don't want to look back at my life and see something empty. I want to see something I can be proud of. You see, Christopher, I'm ambitious.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Children can be very taxing.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“Those were splendid days. We didn’t know it then, of course, just how splendid they were. Children never do, I suppose.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans