blackgoldfish~BBM~ Female, 28, In a relationship. Hong Kong

it's a heartbreaking story but i really enjoy reading it. this novel uses a science fiction framework (about cloning, science ethics, transplantation) to reflect humanity and soul. love the session about "norfolk", the lost corner of the world, where kath found her lost album "songs after drak" with tommy. am going to read another book by ishiguro, his most famous one -- the remains of the day.

"hope, paul said to me once, which whispered from pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows has escaped, is the best and last of all things. without it, there's only time. and time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion. [...] like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. time is simply the yardstick of our separation. if we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there's a science to our solitude. we are lonely in proportion to our years."
pp.237

"many animals have memory...but no other creature except man can recall the past at will."
pp.278

"it's better to love something that can love you back"
pp.284

"imagine, paul said to me once, that the present is simply a reflection of the future. imagine that we spend our whole lives staring into a mirror with the future at our backs, seeing it only in the reflection of what is here and now. some of us would begin to believe that we could see tomorrow better by turning around to look at it directly. but those who did, without even realizing it, would've lost the key to the perspective they once had. for the one thing they would never be able to see in it was themselves."
pp.439

越睇越精采

pp 532

'[...] it's what gurus call higher consciousness. biologists call it altered states. psychologists call it super-sentience.' he paused. 'and christians call it answered prayer.' [...] sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.'

'each of us is a god, buddha had said. each of us knows all. we need only open our minds to hear out own wisdom.'

pp 550

'does one need to believe in miracles to experience them?'