Kazuo Ishiguro - Hailsham Quotes

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behave badly.

Kazuo Ishiguro