"'...You have to accept that sometimes that's how the things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.'/ 'It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.'/ 'Yes, that's true. But think of it. You were better off than many who came before you. And who knows what those who come after you will have to face...You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we were able to do that principally by sheltering you...Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you. I suppose you could even call it that. But we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods...I'm so proud to see you both. You built your lives on what we gave you. You wouldn't be who you are today if we'd not protected you...Why should you have done, knowing what lay in store for each of you? You would have told us it was all pointless, and how could we have argued with you?" (Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go. Chapter 22)
