451 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

How is it possible to hate so deeply for deeds not yet done?

Boatman, I’ve spoken honestly to you, and I hope it doesn’t cast your earlier judgement of us in doubt. For I suppose there’s some would hear my words and think our love flawed and broken. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.

For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained a moment or two or real satisfaction.

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.

I wish him the very best. All I’m saying is that there are all kinds of ways to lead a successful life.

Boatman,” she says. “There’s a tale I once heard, perhaps as a small child. Of an island full of gentle woods and streams, yet also a place of strange qualities. Many cross to it, yet for each who dwells there, it’s as if he walks the island alone...

And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.

Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely. When we do, we’re only too glad to ferry the couple together.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.