It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Kazuo IshiguroOne is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
Kazuo IshiguroI took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.
Kazuo Ishiguro