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Quotes About Hope

Because whatever the song was really about, in my head, when I was dancing, I had my own version. You see, I imagined it was about this woman who'd been told she couldn't have babies. But then she'd had one, and she was so pleased, and she was holding it ever so tightly to her breast, really afraid something might separate them, and she's going baby, baby, never let me go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, maybe even call.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I could suddenly see something, he explained to us. A garden I'd not yet entered. There it was, in the distance. There were things in the way. But for the first time, there it was. A garden I'd never seen before.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When we were new, we used to worry that because we often couldn't see the Sun from mid-store,we'd grow weaker and weaker.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Pero tenía la esperanza de que, si nuestras miradas seguían unidas durante unos cuantos segundos, ella sabría leer mi expresión como yo había sabido leer la suya.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
cuando perdíamos algo precioso, y buscábamos y buscábamos por todas partes y no lo encontrábamos, no debíamos perder por completo la esperanza. Nos quedaba aún una brizna de consuelo al pensar que un día, cuando fuéramos mayores y pudiéramos viajar libremente por todo el país, siempre podríamos ir a Norfolk y encontrar lo que habíamos perdido hacía tanto tiempo
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What Axl and I feel today in our hearts for each other tells us the path taken here can hold no danger for us, no matter that the mist hides it now. It's like a tale with a happy end, when even a child knows not to fear the twists and turns before. Axl and I would remember our life together, whatever its shape, for it's been a thing dear to us.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
?n vacibi o idi ki, dÉ™yÉ™rli bir ??yam?z? itirÉ™ndÉ™ vÉ™ axtar?b-axtar?b tapa bilmÉ™yÉ™ndÉ™ qÉ™lbimiz tamamilÉ™ q?r?lm?rd?. Böyüyüb ölkÉ™dÉ™ sÉ™rbÉ™st sÉ™yahÉ™t edÉ™ bilÉ™ndÉ™ Norfolka getmÉ™k imkan?m?z?n olaca?? fikri ilÉ™ özümüzÉ™ tÉ™sÉ™lli verÉ™ bilirdik.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. 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
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." I
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Çöpleri, dallara tak?lm?? sallanan naylon parçalar?n?, tel örgüye tak?lm?? tuhaf ÅŸeylerin oluÅŸturduÄŸu hatt? düÅŸünüyordum ve gözlerimi k?s?p çocukluÄŸumdan bu yana kaybettiÄŸim her ÅŸeyin buraya sürüklendiÄŸini hayal ettim, ÅŸimdi burada, hepsinin önünde duruyordum ve yeterince beklersem, tarlalar?n ötesinde, ufuk hatt?nda ufac?k bir figür belirecekti.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days? There was no going back.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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
Goodnight, Klara. Be as wonderful tomorrow as you were today.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
No creo que sea necesariamente malo. Una vez que encuentres a alguien, Kath, al alguien con quien realmente quieras estar, entonces será estupendo.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What was important to us, as Ruth said one evening when we were sitting in that tiled room in Dover, looking out at the sunset, was that "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.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And I tried to imagine how I would feel if Rosa and I, a long time from now, long after we'd found our different homes, saw each other again by chance on a street. Would I then feel, as Manager had put it, pain alongside my happiness? *
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Josie suffers from a very rare disease, he said. It's caused by a genetic mutation. But the good news is that researchers are working on a gene therapy that could correct the mutation. It's still in the experimental stage, but there's a good chance it'll work. If it does, Josie could be cured. And I wondered, as I often did these days, whether Artificial Friends could help with such work.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro