# data[].attributes.body
"My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the end of this year."(Ishiguro 3)

# data[].attributes.body
"...how there are no more recovery centres, no carers, no friends; how there's nothing to do except watch your remaining donations until they switch you off"(Ishiguro 279).

# data[].attributes.body
"Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading."(Ishiguro 286)

# data[].attributes.body
"None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working on supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you." ( Ishiguro 81)

# data[].attributes.body
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this 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.

# data[].attributes.body
"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" (Ishiguro 124).

# data[].attributes.body
“If you’re to live decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”
(pg 81)

# data[].attributes.body
"We did it to prove you had souls at all"(Ishiguro 260).

# data[].attributes.body
We did it to prove you had souls at all

# data[].attributes.body
"None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you." (Ishiguro 81)

# data[].attributes.body
"Once I'd spotted this, I began to notice all kinds of other things the veteran couples had taken from TV programs: the way they gestured each other, sat together on sofas, even the way they argued and stormed out of rooms" (Ishiguro 121).

# data[].attributes.body
"It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders" (Ishiguro 35).

# data[].attributes.body
"'I suppose it is a bit cruel,' Ruth said, 'the way they always work him up like that. But it's his own fault. If he learnt to keep his cool, they'd leave him alone'" (Ishiguro 10)

# data[].attributes.body
"I've developed a kind of instinct around donors"(Ishiguro30).

# data[].attributes.body
"Then there's the solitude. You grow up surrounded by crowds of people, that's all you've ever known, and suddenly you're a carer." (Ishiguro 207)

# data[].attributes.body
"But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?- maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another." (Ishiguro 197)

# data[].attributes.body
"I was talking to one of my donors a few days ago who was complaining about how memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading," (Ishiguro 286).

# data[].attributes.body
"So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them..." (Ishiguro 36).

# data[].attributes.body
“If you’re to live decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you” (Ishiguro 81)

# data[].attributes.body
"The little footpath that went all round the back of the main house was a real favourite of mine...

I suppose part of the reason I liked the path so much was because I was never sure if it was out

of bounds... Most students avoided it anyway, and maybe the feeling of getting away from everyone

else was another part of the appeal" (Ishiguro 44).

# data[].attributes.body
"You won't find anything like Hailsham anywhere in the country now. All you'll find, as ever, are those vast government "homes", and even if they're somewhat better than they once were, let me tell you, my dears, you'd not sleep for days if you saw what still goes on in some of those places"(Ishiguro 260).

# data[].attributes.body
"We all know it. We're modeled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. That's where we come from. we all know it, so why don't we say it?" (Ishiguro 166).

# data[].attributes.body
"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all." (Ishiguro 255)

# data[].attributes.body
"I was talking to one of my donors a few days ago who was complaining about how memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly."(Ishiguro 286)

# data[].attributes.body
"Once we got to the Cottages, though, the essays took on a new importance. In our first days there, and for some of us a lot longer, it was like we were each clinging to our essay, this last task from Hailsham, like it was a farewell gift from the guardians. Over time, they would fade from our minds, but for a while those essays helped keep us afloat in our new surroundings" (Ishiguro 115)

# data[].attributes.body
"The tape had been the perfect excuse for all this fun, and now it had stopped, we'd have to stop" (Ishiguro 172).

# data[].attributes.body
"...Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading,"(Ishiguro 286).

# data[].attributes.body
" It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go" (195).

# data[].attributes.body
"When I'd finished, there was a funny sort of silence hanging in the dark,

and I realized everyone was waiting for Ruth's response-which was usually

what happened whenever something a bit awkward came up" (Ishiguro 15).

# data[].attributes.body
"I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea" (Ishiguro 119).

# data[].attributes.body
"I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept going on, and no one said anything." (Ishiguro 15)

# data[].attributes.body
"Your lives are set out for you . . . You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided" (Ishiguro 81).

# data[].attributes.body
"I put them all in a bin bag, but I couldn't stand the idea of puting them out with the rubbish. So I asked old Keffers once he was about the drive off, if he'd take the bin bag to a shop. I knew about charity shops, i'd found it all out." (Ishiguro 131)

# data[].attributes.body
" I keep thinking of this river somewhere with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how I think it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, Because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever."

# data[].attributes.body
"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. The fantasy never got beyond that- I didn't let it- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be." (Ishiguro 288)

# data[].attributes.body
“I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we had to have some form of medical almost every week”(Ishiguro 13).

# data[].attributes.body
"That was when I first understood, just how lucky we'd been--Tommy, Ruth, me, all the rest of us." (Ishiguro 6)

# data[].attributes.body
"If you're going to have decent lives, then you've got to know and know properly. None of you will go to America, none of you will become film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you." (Ishiguro 81)

# data[].attributes.body
"We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've been through, or feel we've had enough time" (Ishiguro

# data[].attributes.body
"That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagine just a little fantasy thing, because this was Norfolk after all, and it was only a couple of weeks since I'd lost him" (Ishiguro 287).

# data[].attributes.body
"You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?" (Ishiguro 231)

# data[].attributes.body
"What she said was that if I didn't want to be creative, if I really didn't feel like it, that was perfectly all right. Nothing wrong with it, she said" (Ishiguro 23).

# data[].attributes.body
"It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever". (pg. 282

# data[].attributes.body
"But when I came into your dormitory, I saw you, by yourself, a little girl, dancing. As you say, eyes closed, far away, a look of yearning. You were dancing so very sympathetically. And the music, the song. There was something in the words. It was full of sadness." (Ishiguro 271)

# data[].attributes.body
"There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window and I'd feel such revulsion...But I was determined not to let such feelings stop me doing what was right. I fought those feelings and I won." (Ishiguro 269).

# data[].attributes.body
"So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realize that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs" (Ishiguro 36).

# data[].attributes.body
"The fantasy never got beyond that...and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be." (Ishiguro 288)

# data[].attributes.body
"Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust" (Ishiguro 208).

# data[].attributes.body
“Then there were rumors almost every day of pranks that had been played on him...I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything" (Ishiguro 15).

# data[].attributes.body
"We're all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window and I'd feel such revulsion..." (Ishiguro 269).

# data[].attributes.body
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”( Ishiguro 282

# data[].attributes.body
"So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who dont hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you - of how you were brought into the world and why - and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange" (Ishiguro 36).

# data[].attributes.body
"She watched me carefully, then did a laugh, as though to say: 'We're still friends, aren't we?' But I didn't find anything to laugh at in this last remark of hers. I just picked up my book and walked off without another word," Ishiguro (125

# data[].attributes.body
"It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders" (Ishiguro 35).

# data[].attributes.body
"The fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then––who knows?––maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.”(Kathy 197)

# data[].attributes.body
"I'd meant us, all the students who'd grown up with me and were now spread across the country, carers and donors, all separated now but still somehow linked by the place we'd come from." (Ishiguro 212)

# data[].attributes.body
"The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart. Her voice had dropped again, almost to a whisper. That was the worst thing I did." (Ishiguro 228)

# data[].attributes.body
"You wouldn't have become absorbed in your lessons, you wouldn't have lost yourselves in your art and your writing. Why should you have done, knowing what lay in store for each of you? You would have told us it was all pointless, and how could we have argued with you?" (Ishiguro 268)

# data[].attributes.body
"The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy,

but I won't lose my memories of them."

# data[].attributes.body
"And my role, as her closest friend, was to give her silent support, as if I was in the front row of the audience and she was performing on stage." (Ishiguro 130).

# data[].attributes.body
"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong."(Ishiguro 282)."

# data[].attributes.body
"The fantasy never got beyond that - I didn't let it - and though tears rolled down my face. I wasn't sobbing or out of control" (Ishiguro 288).

# data[].attributes.body
"The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them" (Ishiguro 286).

# data[].attributes.body
"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all" (Ishiguro 261).

# data[].attributes.body
"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart" (Ishiguro 282).

# data[].attributes.body
“You say you’re sure ? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ” (Ishiguro 231)

# data[].attributes.body
"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all." (Ishiguro 260)

# data[].attributes.body
"She reached out her hand, all the while staring into my face, and placed it on my cheek. I could feel a trembling go all through her body, but she kept her hand where it was, and I could see again tears appearing in her eyes.

'You poor creatures ,' she repeated, almost in a whisper."

# data[].attributes.body
"Maybe Madame can read minds. She's strange. Maybe she can see right inside you. It wouldn't surprise me." (Ishiguro 73)

# data[].attributes.body
"...People did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter."(Ishiguro 263).

# data[].attributes.body
"You've been told about it. You're students. You're...special" (Ishiguro 68).

# data[].attributes.body
"The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. But I'm not. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you" (Ishiguro 20)

# data[].attributes.body
"Your life must now run the course that's been set for it" (Ishiguro 266).

# data[].attributes.body
"She reached out her hand, all the while staring into my face, and placed it on my cheek. I could feel a trembling go all through her body, but she kept her hand where it was, and I could see again tears appearing in her eyes." (Ishiguro 272)

# data[].attributes.body
"None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you . . . You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided" (Ishiguro 81).

# data[].attributes.body
"The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange." (Ishiguro 36)

# data[].attributes.body
"Maybe all of us at Hailsham has little secrets like that--little private nooks

created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings." (Ishiguro 74)

# data[].attributes.body
"I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be". (Ishiguro 288)

# data[].attributes.body
"we did it to prove you had souls at all." (Ishiguro 260)

# data[].attributes.body
"Every so often, I could see the man's fist, where all the balloon strings converged, and I could see had them securely twisted together in a tight grip. Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky." (Ishiguro 213)