I’m sure, sir, there are all kinds of ethical issues. But in the end, it’s for legislators to decide how these things get regulated, not people like me. For now, I just want to learn as much as I can, so I can take my understanding to the next level.
A mother’s love for her son. Such a noble thing, to override the dread of loneliness.
They fear loneliness and that’s why they behave as they do. Perhaps Josie too.
I was upset. But I’m not any more. You have to look forward in life.
I suppose I’m saying Josie and I will always be together at some level, some deeper one, even if we go out there and don’t see each other any more.
Goodnight, Klara. Be as wonderful tomorrow as you were today.
It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time.
You believe in the human heart? I don’t mean simply the organ, obviously. I’m speaking in a poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?
They conversed at such moments in a speech that was like a code, making me wonder if this was on account of my presence in the room, but I quickly understood it had simply to do with their familiarity with each other’s lives, and that there was no intention to exclude my understanding.
A land of fences is so temporary. You can change things as easily as a stage set. I used to act, you know. Sometimes in decent theaters. Wretched theaters too. Fences, what are they? Stage design. That’s the nice thing about England. Hedges give a sense of history properly set down in the land.
But I could not escape the feeling that what I was really seeing was a weariness with life; the spark which had once made her such a lively, and at times volatile person seemed now to have gone.
There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.
You know, Helen,’ Mr Vance said, ’this is a strange tactic you’re adopting here. Favoritism, like any other form of corruption, works best when it remains unacknowledged.
The reason they go for Tommy’s because he’s a layabout.
But on further observation, I saw that even if the danger topics were avoided – topics like Josie’s education assignments, or her social interaction scores – the uncomfortable feeling could still be there because it really had to do with something beneath these topics; that the danger topics were themselves ways the Mother had devised to make certain emotions appear inside Josie’s mind.
I turned around on the Button Couch, estimating the tension had reached a level that could no longer justify complete privacy.
Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life.
Sea air does you a lot of good.
The other cars had to pass noisily around us, but there was no anti-parking sign. Through the windshield, we could see another under-bridge area in front of us, and the cars that passed us were forming a line to enter it.
It’s wrong that a man can’t get to see around his own country. Take my advice, get out of the house for a few days.