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“A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.” (The Buried Giant Quotes)
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Be merciful and leave this place. Leave this country to rest in forgetfulness.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“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.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“But such monsters were not cause for astonishment. People then would have regarded them as everyday hazards, and in those days there was so much else to worry about. How to get food out of the hard ground; how not to run out of firewood; how to stop the sickness that could kill a dozen pigs in a single day and produce green rashes on the cheeks of children.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn’t like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I’m wondering if without our memories, there’s nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“How is it possible to hate so deeply for deeds not yet done?”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Our life together’s like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“The danger isn’t the river’s speed, friend, but its slowness.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“This circle of hate is hardly broken, sir, but forged instead in iron by what’s done today.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“What advantage does it bring a man to be so tall? For every high-dangling pear I reached there’s been an arrow threatened me would have flown over a smaller man!”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“What use is a god with boundless mercy, sir? You mock me as a pagan, yet the gods of my ancestors pronounce clearly their ways and punish severely when we break their laws. Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“when travelers speak of their most cherished memories, it’s impossible for them to disguise the truth. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
“Your Christian god of mercy gives men license to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
