When We Were Orphans
Kazuo IshiguroSözler ve Alıntılar
Make me cry
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents.
I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.
I felt obliged to take other wives. But she is the one I truly cared for. The others have all gone now, and she is left.
Accordingly the characters of the kidnappers softened; it tuned out they were not evil after all, simply men with starving families.
'Christopher you look as if something heavy just hit you on the head. You are not going to let me down, are you?'