Kazuo Ishiguro

Kath, I've been looking all over for you. I mean't to say sorry. I mean, I'm really, really sorry. I honestly didn't mean to hit you the other day. I wouldn't dream of hitting a girl, and even if I did, I'd never want to hit you. I'm really, really sorry.

Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.

The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.