Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

“when we lost something precious, and we’d looked and looked and still couldn’t find it, then we didn’t have to be completely heartbroken.

thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.”

And suddenly I felt the disappointment ebbing away and being replaced by a real happiness.

“sex affects emotions in ways you’d never expect.”

But I could hardly, by myself, start shouting for rewinds just to see sex scenes again.

Hahaha

It was typical of Tommy that once he knew I was willing to talk, there was suddenly no trace left of any sulkiness;

and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go.

I couldn’t resist doing it with other people sometimes. At least three others when we were at the Cottages.”

Wilddd

You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other.

It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”

When he said this, I remembered the way I’d held onto him that night in the wind-swept field on the way back from Little-hampton.

Then I came in one day and it was the last time.

how memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.