Top 15 Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

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.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.

This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.

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

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.

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

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.

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

nostalgic about their collections.

until it came to dominate our lives.

I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest.

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

Ruth insisted – that she really was afraid of us.

Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.

What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?