Never Let Me Go Quotes

“Pero tenía la esperanza de que, si nuestras miradas seguían unidas durante unos cuantos segundos, ella sabría leer mi expresión como yo había sabido leer la suya.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Y se resumía en lo siguiente: lo estábamos haciendo demasiado tarde. Había habido un tiempo para ello, pero lo habíamos dejado pasar, y había algo de ridículo, e incluso de censurable, en el modo en que ahora concebíamos y planeábamos nuestro futuro.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Quizá habríamos sido felices si las cosas hubieran continuado de este modo durante más tiempo; si hubiéramos podido disfrutar de más tardes charlando, practicando sexo, leyendo en voz alta y dibujando.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Y durante lo que se me antojó una eternidad seguimos allí de pie, en lo alto de aquel campo, sin decir nada, abrazándonos, mientras el viento soplaba contra nosotros y nos tiraba de la ropa, y seguimos aferrándonos el uno al otro como si fuera la única manera de impedir que nos arrastrara al fondo de la noche.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“No hago más que pensar en ese río de no sé qué parte, con unas aguas muy rápidas. Y en esas dos personas que están en medio de ellas, tratando de agarrarse mutuamente, aferrándose con todas sus fuerzas el uno al otro, hasta que al final ya no pueden aguantar más. La corriente es demasiado fuerte. Tienen que soltarse, y se separan, y se los lleva el agua.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“And that’s why, years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn’t just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“He’d have known, too, he was raising questions to which even the doctors had no certain answers. You’ll have heard the same talk. How maybe, after the fourth donation, even if you’ve technically completed, you’re still conscious in some sort of way; how then you find there are more donations, plenty of them, on the other side of that line; how there are no more recovery centres, no carers, no friends; how there’s nothing to do except watch your remaining donations until they switch you off. It’s horror movie stuff, and most of the time people don’t want to think about it. Not the whitecoats, not the carers—and usually not the donors.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“If you make them tiny, and you have to because the pages are only about this big, then everything changes. It's like they come to life by themselves. Then you have to draw in all these different details for them. You have to think about how they'd protect themselves, how they'd reach things.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“She was the one always pretending to have finished anything anyone happened to be reading; and she was the only one with this notion that the way to demonstrate your superior reading was to go around telling people the plots of novels they were in the middle of.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“That’s most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn’t really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I’ve never forgotten.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham, that suddenly brought us close again, and we hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both our memories. Then I had to hurry off to my own car.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Oh, I think they’ve got a friend there, someone who used to live here. That’s not the point. The point is, they claim they saw this … person. Working there in this open-plan office. And, well, you know. They reckon this person’s a possible. For me.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do. You’re not like the actors you watch on your videos, you’re not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“You see, because it’s stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it’s not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south’ – she moved the pointer up and down – ‘they bypass it altogether. For that reason, it’s a peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But it’s also something of a lost corner.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“At one point he got tripped, and picking himself up, placed the ball on the ground to take the free kick himself. As the boys spread out in anticipation, I saw Arthur H. – one of his biggest tormentors – a few yards behind Tommy’s back, begin mimicking him, doing a daft version of the way Tommy was standing over the ball, hands on hips. I watched carefully, but none of the others took up Arthur’s cue. They must all have seen, because all eyes were looking towards Tommy, waiting for his kick, and Arthur was right behind him – but no one was interested. Tommy floated the ball across the grass, the game went on, and Arthur H. didn’t try anything else.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“You see it in films sometimes, when one person's pointing a gun at another person, and the one with the gun's making the other one do all kinds of things. Then suddenly there's a mistake, a tussle, and the gun's with the second person. And the second person looks at the first person with a gleam, a kind of can't-believe-my-luck expression that promises all kinds of vengeance.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that—little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time—like somehow we were letting the side down.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“This gave us both a little chill, and though we giggled, we didn’t say any more about it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“who don’t hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment. It’s like walking past a mirror you’ve walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It’s just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Bütün bunlara karşı bağışıklık kazandığımı söylemiyorum, ama böyle yaşamayı öğrendim.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“... ama küçük arabama binince, bir kaç saat boyunca sadece yollar, geniş, gri gökyüzü ve hayallerimle baş başa kalmayı seviyorum.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Çöpleri, dallara takılmış sallanan naylon parçalarını, tel örgüye takılmış tuhaf şeylerin oluşturduğu hattı düşünüyordum ve gözlerimi kısıp çocukluğumdan bu yana kaybettiğim her şeyin buraya sürüklendiğini hayal ettim, şimdi burada, hepsinin önünde duruyordum ve yeterince beklersem, tarlaların ötesinde, ufuk hattında ufacık bir figür belirecekti.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Bana baktı ve konuşmamasına rağmen o bakışın ne anlama geldiğini anladım.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Ama seni gördüm ve yüreğim sızladı. Bunu asla unutmadım.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go