{"author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["child","parent","innocence "],"id":9017,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughtered in vengeance. Where could it end? Babes growing to men knowing only days of war.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["war"],"id":12306,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["bittersweet","broken-heart","mr-stevens","powerful","rejection","simple"],"id":26875,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["life","time","younger-generation","youth"],"id":27097,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["beautiful","inspirational","story"],"id":29363,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["books","reading"],"id":35886,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["life","self-awareness"],"id":37011,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"It was a fine feeling indeed to be standing up there like that, with the sound of summer all around one and a light breeze on one's face. And I believe it was then, looking on that view, that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me. For it was then that I felt the first healthy flush of anticipation for the many interesting experiences I know these days ahead hold in store for me.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["adventure-of-faerie-folk","journey","travel"],"id":39349,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; 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 throughly.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["thinking","traveling","understanding"],"id":46390,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"What I mean is, right from that first time, there wassomething in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed tosay: “Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what apity we left it so late.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["missed-opportunities","regret"],"id":67368,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}