Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

nostalgic about their collections.

... I must admit, if it hadn't been for the encounter on the stairs, i probably wouldn't have taken the interest I did in Tommy's problems over the next several weeks.

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

until it came to dominate our lives.

Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

She said we weren't being taught enough.

It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.

It's nothing to do with you anyway.

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?

Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.

The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.

I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching.

It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.