Kazuo Ishiguro Go Quotations

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 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.

She always wanted to believe in things.

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 ever see them fading.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. 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.

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.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.