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Quotes About Discovery

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
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
?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
I suppose I'm saying Josie and I will always be together at some level, some deeper one, even if we go out there and don't see each other any more. I can't speak for her. But once I'm out there, I know I'll always keep searching for someone just like her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What do you think she'd have said if we'd asked her? 'Excuse me, but do you think your friend was ever a clone model?' She'd have thrown us out. We know it, so we might as well just say it. If you want to look for possibles, if you want to do it properly, then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that's where you'll find where we all came from.
~ 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
It's wrong that a man can't get to see around his own country. Take my advice, get out of the house for a few days.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Tendrás que descifrar su corazón, aprender todo de él, o jamás conseguirás convertirte en la verdadera Josie.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn't be continued. He told the Mother he'd searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought through thoroughly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought through thoroughly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Un giorno, forse non molto lontano, imparerai come ci si sente ». Così rimani in attesa, anche se non sai esattamente di cosa, in attesa del momento in cui comprenderai che sei davvero diversa da loro;
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?
~ Kazuya Minekura
I remember the first time I looked into your eyes, it was like staring at the back of the moon, only to find that it shines too.
~ Keisha Ervin
Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.
~ Keith Donohue
It's a road, Corey said, pointing. A dirt road, Hayley muttered. So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
~ Kelley Armstrong
He stood and inhaled, then walked a few more feet, stooped, and prodded a chunk of rabbit fur. "I'm definitely thinking something with more body parts," I said. "Like a head." He gave a snort of a laugh. "It's probably around here somewhere, but I suppose you want the parts attached, too.
~ Kelley Armstrong
To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Some women just aren't cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.
~ Kelley Armstrong
As they neared the spot from which the noise had come, Moria saw a hand lying on the pathway. It appeared to be attached to a body, which was a relief. Again, these days, one could not guarantee such a thing.
~ Kelley Armstrong