love is the bless of God

Leanna 2022-04-23 07:02:36

At the end of the film, the housekeeper said: "When I left, I didn't expect that I would really leave. In a flash, after 20 years, I didn't expect that I was married and had children..." On the

contrary, the boys seemed more lonely. He loves too. He is also alone. Quietly. (I have been watching the movie and have been guessing what zodiac sign the butler is, Scorpio? Cancer? Later, I thought that there may be such people everywhere.)

I like Kazuo Ishiguro's novels very much. There is always a kind of his color, dark, but Not dark. A few people, one or a few things in a certain environment, like coming from far away, a kind of strange deep, quiet power that needs to be remembered for a long time.


There are always so many stories related to love. Whether it is a happy ending or parting, love is a magic power or favor given by God to human beings. I don't like stories or plots that are too intense, as if they will exhaust people's strength all at once, making people exhausted. Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go had this feeling once in a while. Later when we were orphans, the remains of the day as we got older, but a slow, gentle rhythm is more acceptable. The people we have loved are like yellowish amber frozen by agar, and memories are the insects that are fixed in amber. We carry amber in our pockets and take it with us wherever we go. It will not be washed away and will not rot. off, it's always there.

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The Remains of the Day quotes

  • Miss Kenton: [about a new housemaid] You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed.

    [teasing]

    Miss Kenton: Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and doesn't trust himself?

    Stevens: [with the faintest trace of a smile] You know what I'm doing, Miss Kenton? I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere as you chatter away.

    Miss Kenton: ...then why is that guilty smile still on your face?

    Stevens: Oh it's not a guilty smile. I'm simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk.

    Miss Kenton: It *is* a guilty smile. You can hardly bear to look at her. That's why you didn't want to take her on, she's too pretty.

    Stevens: Well, you must be right Miss Kenton, you always are.

  • Miss Kenton: I don't know what my future is. Ever since Katherine, my daughter, got married last year, my life has been empty. The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But, I would like to be useful again.