Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954 CE-), Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five.