Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

“Suddenly he placed the key device into the ignition slot. ‘We’ve been instructed to get lost for a while. Until, to be precise’ - he looked at his watch - ‘five forty-five. Then we’re to rendezvous at this sushi place.” p. 213

“ ‘Vance, darling. Would you care for something to go with this coffee? Perhaps one of those donuts I see over there? You were always partial to donuts.’ ” P. 244

“We didn’t look at each other, but kept gazing out through the windshield. Beside me, on my side, an apron man had emerged from the Grind Our Own Beef building and was sweeping the sidewalk.” P. 210

“The Mother’s quick coffee was, as I say, an important moment each morning, and it was one of my tasks to wake Josie up in good time for it.” P. 54

“When I came in behind Rick a moment later, I found the lighting so strong and yellow I couldn’t immediately adjust to it. Only gradually did I make out the slices of fruit pie, each one shaped like the diner itself, displayed inside the see-through counter, and the Diner Manager – a large, black-skinned man – standing very still behind it, his face fixed away from me.” P. 241

“After we returned to the house, and Josie had put away her padded jacket, Melania Housekeeper made her a yogurt drink, and the two of us sat together at the Island while she sipped it through a straw.” p. 65

“Josie had by then gone up to her room, and the kitchen was in near-darkness, with only the light from the hall to illuminate it. But the Mother seemed happy to stand there before the large window, staring out into the night as she drank her wine.” P. 89