Kazuo Ishiguro

"I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny fi…"

"What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had en…"

"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?"

"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 ju…"

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

"She said we weren't being taught enough."

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