Never Let Me Go Quotes

“Îmi tot vine în minte o imagine cu un râu cu ape repezi. În apă sunt doi oameni care încearcă șă se țină unul e celălalt cât de tare pot, dar până la urmă e mult, mult prea greu. Curentul e mult prea puternic. Trebuie să-ți dea drumul unul altuia, să se despartă. Așa cred că e și cu noi. E mare păcat, Kath, pentru că noi ne-am iubit toată viața. Dar asta e. N-avem ce face. Nu putem rămâne împreună pe vecie.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Uneori sunt atât de adâncită în singurătate, încât dacă se întâmplă să dau din greseală peste o persoană pe care o cunosc, am un fel de șoc și îmi ia ceva timp să mă adaptez la situație.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Îmi amintesc cum m-am simțit copleșită brusc de o oboseală uriașă, de un fel de letargie, în fața fiarelor încurcate ale dezastrului din fața mea. Era ca atunci când ți se dă o problemă de matematică într-un moment în care creierul ți-e extrem de obosit și tu știi că există nu știu ce soluție care-ți trece într-o străfulgerare prin fața ochilor, dar nu reușești să-ți aduni energia pentru a o descoperi.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“A fost ca la șah, când faci o mișcare și, chiar în clipa în care îți iei degetul de pe piesă, îți dai seama de greșeala făcută și intri în panică, fiindcă nu cunoști încă dimensiunea dezastrului pe care l-ai provocat fără să vrei.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“N-aș putea spune că au fost ani nefericiți - am multe amintiri dragi din timpul lor, dar au fost mult mai serioși și, în anumite privințe, mai întunecați. Poate că în mintea mea toate au căpătat proporții exagerate, dar am rămas cu sentimentul că în acel interval de timp lucrurile au început să se schimbe extrem de rapid, așa cum ziua se târăște în noapte.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Poate toți cei de la Hailsham aveam asemenea secrete - mici cotloane de spațiu, care existau doar în mintea noastră și în care ne puteam retrage cu fricile și dorințele noastre.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Spui că sunteți singuri? Sunteți siguri că vă iubiți? De unde știți asta? Credeți că dragostea e chiar atât de simplă?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field, for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I suppose it is a bit cruel,' Ruth said, 'the way they always work him up like that. But it's his own fault. If he learnt to keep his cool, they'd leave him alone.'

'They'd still keep on at him,' Hannah said. 'Graham K.'s temper's just as bad, but that only makes them all the more careful with him. The reason they go for Tommy's because he's a layabout.'

Then everyone was talking at once, about how Tommy never even tried to be creative, about how he hadn't even put anything in for the Spring Exchange. I suppose the truth was, by that stage, each of us was secretly wishing a guardian would come from the house and take him away. And although we hadn't had any part in this latest plan to rile Tommy, we *had* taken out ringside seats, and we were starting to feel guilty. But there was no sign of a guardian, so we just kept swapping reasons why Tommy deserved everything he got.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“...like they were in a play and he'd forgotten his lines.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Tommy, you don’t seem very pleased for me,” I said, though in an obviously jokey voice.
“I am pleased for you, Kath. It’s just that, well, I wish I’d found it.” Then he did a small laugh and
went on: “Back then, when you lost it, I used to think about it, in my head, what it would be like, if I
found it and brought it to you. What you’d say, your face, all of that.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Lần đầu tiên ta nhìn chính mình qua mắt kẻ khác như vậy, đó là một khoảnh khắc lạnh giá. Cũng giống như ta đi qua một tấm gương mà ngày nào trong đời mình ta cũng đi qua, thế rồi đột nhiên tấm gương cho ta thấy một cái gì khác, một cái gì xa lạ và khó chịu.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“...Ən vacibi o idi ki, dəyərli bir əşyamızı itirəndə və axtarıb-axtarıb tapa bilməyəndə qəlbimiz tamamilə qırılmırdı. Böyüyüb ölkədə sərbəst səyahət edə biləndə Norfolka getmək imkanımızın olacağı fikri ilə özümüzə təsəlli verə bilirdik.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“...Mən daima suyu çox sürətli axan bir çay təsəvvür edirəm. Suda bir-birindən tutmağa çalışan, bacardıqları qədər möhkəm yapışan iki adamı düşünürəm. Lakin axırda dözmürlər. Axın çox güclüdür. Onlar bir-birini buraxıb ayrılmalı olurlar. Bizim də belə olduğumuzu düşünürəm. Heyif, Keti, çünki biz ömür boyu bir-birimizi sevmişik. Lakin həmişəlik bir yerdə qala bilmərik.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Məncə, onu həmişə gizlətdiyimə görə mənim üçün belə əhəmiyyətli idi. Bəlkə Heylşemdə hamının belə kiçik sirləri var idi, hamımızın qorxuları və arzuları ilə baş-başa qala biləcəyi heçdən yaradılmış kiçik özəl guşələri olmalı idi. Ancaq belə şeylər hiss etməyi səhv hesab edərdik, sanki bununla özümüzü daha çox məyus edə bilərdik.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“... Bu çox qəddar andır. Sanki ömrün boyu hər gün yanından ötdüyün güzgü sənə qəfildən başqa şey, əzab verən qəribə bir şey göstərir.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“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

“pictures, poetry, all that kind of stuff, she said they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“He was looking at me in complete innocence and I didn’t know what to say. A part of me wanted badly to tell him what was going on, and I suppose I knew that to do anything else would be to betray the trust we’d built up since the moment I’d reminded him about his polo shirt. And for me to strap up his arm in a splint would have meant my becoming one of the main perpetrators of the joke.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, “Never Let Me Go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“that there are people out there, like Madame, 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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“What was important to us, as Ruth said one evening when we were sitting in that tiled room in Dover, looking out at the sunset, was that “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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn’t going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I’ll go to Norfolk and I’ll find it there for her.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“So you’re waiting, even if you don’t quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, 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.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“We hadn’t been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we  would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“cuando perdíamos algo precioso, y buscábamos y buscábamos por todas partes y no lo encontrábamos, no debíamos perder por completo la esperanza. Nos quedaba aún una brizna de consuelo al pensar que un día, cuando fuéramos mayores y pudiéramos viajar libremente por todo el país, siempre podríamos ir a Norfolk y encontrar lo que habíamos perdido hacía tanto tiempo”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Era como tener que resolver un problema de matemáticas cuando tienes la mente exhausta, y sabes que existe una solución remota pero no puedes reunir la energía suficiente para tratar de dar con ella. Algo en mí tiró la toalla.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go