Words&Dirt

“‘I know things, and feel things, but the wrong way round.  That’s me: all the right answers at none of the right times.  I see and can’t understand.  I need to adjust my spectrum, pull myself away from the blue end.  I could do with a red shift.  Galaxies and Rectors have them.  Why not me?'”

––Red Shift, by Alan Garner, loc. 2558

“I’ve done my share of looking after donors brought up in every kind of place.  By the time I finish, remember, I’ll have done twelve years of this, and it’s only for the last six they’ve let me choose.

And why shouldn’t they?  Carers aren’t machines.  You try and do your best for every donor, but in the end, it wears you down.  You don’t have unlimited patience and energy.  So when you get a chance to choose, of course, you choose your own kind.  That’s natural.”

––Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, pg. 4