“Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 4
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“It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 34
“She said we weren't being taught enough.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 29
“My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 3
“I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 25
“Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 21, p. 248
“It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 11
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 2, pp. 13–14
“Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 31
“Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 43
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Source: The Remains of the Day (1989), p. 245
“nostalgic about their collections.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 38
“At least you got him to pipe down,' she said. 'Are you okay? Mad animal.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 12
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 2, p. 14
On growing up in England, having left Japan at age 5. Conversation with Lewis Burke Frumkes, The Writer http://www.writermag.com/, volume 114, number 5, May 2001, collected in Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, p. 189 https://books.google.com/books?id=lvuteIrz7JUC&pg=PA189&dq=%22there+was+another+life+that+i+might+have+had,+but+I%E2%80%99m+having+this+one%22
... I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.<br><br>Rukeyser, Rebecca. " Kazuo Ishiguro: Mythic Retreat https://www.guernicamag.com/mythic-retreat/" guernicamag.com interview. 1 May 2015.