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

“Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Sure? You say you're *sure*? Sure that you're in love. How can you know it? You think love is so simple? So you are in love. Deeply in love. Is that what you're saying to me?”
― 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 on to each other, holding 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, Cath, 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 was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I've 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 figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he's wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that-I didn't let it- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”
― 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 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

“Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn't.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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