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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro (Author of Klara and the Sun)

“And I could see the weariness in the boy AF’s walk, and wondered what it might be like to have found a home and yet to know that your child didn’t want you.” (Klara and the Sun Quotes)

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun Quotes

“As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learnt that changes were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I’d begun to understand also, that this wasn’t a trait peculiar just to Josie, that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passersby – as they might in a store window, and that such display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom, and I saw it was possible that the consequences of Morgan’s Falls had at no stage been within my control.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Because you know how lousy it feels, people telling you how perfect things will be and they’re not being straight.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“But then suppose you stepped into one of those rooms,’ he said, ‘and discovered another room within it. And inside that room, another room still. Rooms within rooms within rooms. Isn’t that how it might be, trying to learn Josie’s heart? No matter how long you wandered through those rooms, wouldn’t there always be others you’d not yet entered?”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Even so, an AF would feel himself growing lethargic after a few hours away from the Sun, and start to worry there was something wrong with him – that he had some fault unique to him and that if it became known, he’d never find a home.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Even so, I believe there’s still hope. I believe help might come from a place the adults haven’t yet considered. But we need to do something now quickly.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“I suppose they have a point though,’ he said. ‘I don’t belong here. This is a meeting for lifted kids.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there’s nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can’t excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn’t know better.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

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

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“I wish I could go out and walk and run and skateboard and swim in lakes. But I can’t because my mother has Courage. So instead I get to stay in bed and be sick. I’m glad about this. I really am.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“I’d begun to understand also that this wasn’t a trait peculiar just to Josie; that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“I’d remembered of course that I should be grateful as always, but hadn’t been able to keep the disappointment from my mind.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Josie just says what she thinks. Doesn’t care if she says the wrong thing. That gets irritating sometimes but I love her for it.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Our generation still carry the old feelings. A part of us refuses to let go. The part that wants to keep believing there’s something unreachable inside each of us. Something that’s unique and won’t transfer. But there’s nothing like that, we know that now. You know that. For people our age it’s a hard one to let go.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“People often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“So I know just how much it matters to you that people who love one another are brought together, even after many years.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I’m glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“The heart you speak of,’ I said. ‘It might indeed be the hardest part of Josie to learn. It might be like a house with many rooms. Even so, a devoted AF, given time, could walk through each of those rooms, studying them carefully in turn, until they became like her own home.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“The Island was in the center of the kitchen, and perhaps to emphasize its fixed-down nature, had pale brown tiles that mimicked the bricks of a building.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“The Mother was wearing a coat – a thin, dark, high-ranking one – which moved with the wind around her body, so that for a moment she reminded me of the dark birds that perched on the high traffic signals even as the winds blew fiercely.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“The smart kids think I have no shape. But I do. I’m just keeping it hidden. Because who wants them to see?”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“The Sun, noticing there were so many children in the one place, was pouring in his nourishment through the wide windows of the Open Plan.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Then the Coffee Cup Lady reached the RPO Building side, and she and the man were holding each other so tightly they were like one large person, and the Sun, noticing, was pouring his nourishment on them.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don’t like not knowing how you arrive at them. That’s where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“They fought as though the most important thing was to damage each other as much as possible.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun Quotes

“You’re always there, taking it all in. So you know as well as I do. The way she keeps getting at me. There’s no reason a person has to take all that. She pushes it too far, then thinks it can all be fixed with a nice picture. Send the AF over with it. Well she has to understand. Things aren’t always that easily fixed.”

Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun

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