Never Let Me Go Quotes

“We’re going to be leaving here soon. It’s not like a game any more. We’ve got to think carefully.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“ฉันคุยกับผู้บริจาคคนหนึ่งของฉันเมื่อไม่กี่วันที่ผ่านมานี้ เขาบ่นว่าความทรงจำ แม้จะเป็นความทรงจำที่ล้ำค่าที่สุดของคุณ ก็หายไปอย่างรวดเร็วจนน่าแปลกใจ แต่ฉันไม่เห็นด้วย ความทรงจำที่มีค่ามากที่สุดของฉัน ฉันไม่เคยเห็นมันจางหายไปเลย ฉันสูญเสียรูธ จากนั้นก็สูญเสียทอมมี แต่ฉันไม่เคยสูญเสียความทรงจำถึงพวกเขา”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“เราเฝ้าคิดถึงแต่แม่น้ำสายนี้ ที่ไหนสักแห่ง น้ำไหลค่อนข้างเเรง มีคนสองคนอยู่ในน้ำพยายามเกาะกันไว้ เกาะกันอย่างเหนียวเเน่นที่สุดเท่าที่จะทำได้ แต่ในท้ายที่สุดก็ไม่ไหว กระเเสน้ำเเรงเกินไป พวกเขาจำเป็นต้องปล่อย ลอยห่างออกจากกัน นั่นเป็นสิ่งที่เราคิดเกี่ยวกับพวกเรา น่าเสียดายนะ เเคธ เพราะเรารักกันมาตลอดชีวิต แต่ในท้ายที่สุด เรากลับไม่สามารถอยู่ด้วยกันไปตลอดกาลได้”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It was bad luck for poor old Tommy.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and—no matter how much we despised ourselves for it—unable quite to let each other go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“They’d been up to this town called Cromer, up on the north Norfolk coast.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and – no matter how much we despised ourselves for it – unable quite to let each other go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Era como si los tres volviéramos a estar unidos y no quisiéramos que nada pudiera ensombrecer nuestro estado de ánimo.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“-No creo que sea necesariamente malo. Una vez que encuentres a alguien, Kath, al alguien con quien realmente quieras estar, entonces será estupendo.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Fue la única vez —allí de pie, mirando aquella extraña basura, sintiendo cómo el viento barría aquellos yermos campos— en que me permití imaginar una pequeña fantasía. Porque, después de todo, aquello era Norfolk, y hacía apenas dos semanas que había perdido a Tommy. Pensé en todos aquellos desperdicios, en los plásticos que se agitaban entre las ramas, en la interminable ristra de materias extrañas enganchadas entre los alambres de la valla, y entrecerré los ojos e imaginé que era el punto donde todas las cosas que había ido perdiendo desde la infancia habían arribado con el viento, y ahora estaba ante él, y si esperaba el tiempo necesario una diminuta figura aparecería en el horizonte, al otro extremo de los campos, y se iría haciendo más y más grande hasta que podría ver que era Tommy, que me hacía una seña, que incluso me llamaba. La fantasía no pasó de ahí —no permití que fuera más lejos—, y aunque las lágrimas me caían por las mejillas, no estaba sollozando abiertamente ni había perdido el dominio de mí misma. Aguardé un poco, volví al coche y me alejé en él hacia dondequiera que me estuviera dirigiendo.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Cuando te vi bailando aquella tarde, vi también algo más. Vi un mundo nuevo que se avecinaba velozmente. Más científico, más eficiente. Sí. Con más curas para las antiguas enfermedades. Muy bien. Pero más duro. Más cruel. Y veía a una niña, con los ojos muy cerrados, que apretaba contra su pecho el viejo mundo amable, el suyo, un mundo que ella, en el fondo de su corazón, sabía que no podía durar, y lo estrechaba con fuerza y le rogaba que nunca, nunca la abandonara.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“É muito fácil”, acrescentei eu, “criticar quando estamos só de passagem.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Porque em algum lugar, lá no fundo, uma parte de nós permaneceu igual: receosos do mundo em volta e — por mais que nos envergonhássemos disso — incapazes de deixar o outro partir de uma vez por todas.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“درست مثل شطرنج است، وقتی حرکتی را انجام می‌دهی و دستت را از روی مهره برمی‌داری، تازه می‌فهمی چه اشتباهی انجام دادی و حس ترسی بر تو غلبه می‌کند چون هنوز ابعاد و عواقب این اشتباه را نمی‌دانی.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“گاهی چنان در خود فرومی‌روم که اگر به‌طور ناگهانی به فردی بربخورم که می‌شناسم، چند لحظه طول می‌کشد تا خود را در زمان و فضای حال پیدا کنم.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“خاطرات، حتی ارزشمندترین آنها، در طی زمان به شکل اعجاب‌آوری محو می‌شوند.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at “creating.” Ruth”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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. We still had that last bit of comfort, 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.” I”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“ვერც კი ვიფიქრებდი,რომ ერთმანეთში ასე ჩაქსოვილი ჩვენი ცხოვრება ასე მარტივად გაიხსნებოდა და მოშორდებოდა ერთმანეთს.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“დასანანია,ქეით,ჩვენ ხომ მთელი ცხოვრება გვიყვარდა ერთმანეთი, სამუდამოდ ერთად დარჩენა კი არ შეგვიძლია.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Rimanemmo così, sulla sommità di quel campo, per quello che ci sembrò un tempo infinito, abbracciati senza dire una parola, mentre il vento non smetteva di soffiarci contro, e sembrava strapparci i vestiti di dosso; per un istante fu come se ci tenessimo stretti l'uno all'altra, perché quello era l'unico modo per non essere spazzati via nella notte.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I didn’t want to get into a big discussion about Ruth at that stage, so I just agreed with him. But now I’ve had more time to think about it, I’m not so sure how I feel. A part of me keeps wishing we’d somehow been able to share everything we discovered with Ruth. Okay, maybe it would have made her feel bad; made her see whatever damage she’d once done to us couldn’t be repaired as easily as she’d hoped. And maybe, if I’m honest, that’s a small part of my wishing she knew it all before she completed. But in the end, I think it’s about something else, something much more than my feeling vengeful and mean-spirited. Because as Tommy said, she wanted the best for us at the end, and though she said that day in the car I’d never forgive her, she was wrong about that. I’ve got no anger left for her now. When I say I wish she’d found out the whole score, it’s more because I feel sad at the idea of her finishing up different from me and Tommy. The way it is, it’s like there’s a line with us on one side and Ruth on the other, and when all’s said and done, I feel sad about that, and I think she would too if she could see it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I’ll have Hailsham with me, safely in my head, and that’ll be something no one can take away.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“We’d occasionally encounter other headlights, and then I’d get the feeling they belonged to other carers, driving home alone, or maybe like me, with a donor beside them. I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafés were for everyone else.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Lying awake that night after what Roger had told me, I kept seeing those balloons again. I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man’s fist. Once that happened, there’d be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other any more.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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 I think 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”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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 I think it is with us. 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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“There was a certain climate and now it's gone. 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 just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go