Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes about Heart

All Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes Age Childhood Children Country Dignity Doubt Fate Feelings Film Heart quotes Literature Lying Memories Running Translations Writing

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Girl, Heart, Eye

FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Dec 31, 2013

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Heart, Understanding, Honor

Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.115, Faber & Faber