If history teaches us one thing, it is this: terrible things happen to kings. You were anointed by God, blessed by the sun, but you do not yet possess what really matters — the power. Without it, you will perish and all of France along with you. For a king without a castle is no king at all.
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech. (via halcynth)