Цитаты из книги автора Кадзуо Исигуро Не отпускай меня / Never let me go

С другой стороны, я не первая, у кого есть право выбора, и, думаю, не последняя.

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.”

“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.”

потребовать от мира, уже привыкшего считать рак излечимым, чтобы он отказался от этого лечения и добровольно вернулся к старым мрачным временам?

Ведь если, желая приобрести что-нибудь ценное для себя, ты зависишь от других, это влияет на твои отношения с ними.

Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. 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.

guardians: they never mentioned the Gallery, and there was an unspoken rule that we should never even raise the subject in their presence.

Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?”

She said we weren’t being taught enough, something like that.”

Even you, Ruth, you didn’t dare boss Christy around. All because we thought she was great at poetry. But we didn’t know a thing about poetry. We didn’t care about it. It’s strange.”