Klara and The Sun Quotes

- a child would come to stare at us, an there would be a sadness there, or sometimes anger, as though we’d done something wrong.

Klara - perceptive / the complexity of human emotion

Be as wonderful tomorrow as you were today.

Manager - commodification of companionship

She wasn’t slow exactly, but she seemed to take stock after each step to make sure she was still safe and wouldn’t fall.

Klara - cost and benefits of technological advancements

Wow. She’s still talking with Mrs Jeffries. Expensive way to talk, right? The taxi meter just keeps turning over.

Josie - commodification / The costs and benefits of technological progress

Hey, don’t you guys get hot sitting there like that? Do you need a drink or something?

Josie - what it means to be human

Look, over there! do you see, Klara? That boy just loves his AF! Oh, look at the way they’re laughing together!

Rosa - perceptive

… that this was how the girl had decided they would always walk - she in front and he a few steps behind.

Klara - perceptive

I realised that if I didn’t understand at least some of these mysterious things [emotions], then when the time came, I’d never be able to help my child as well as I should.

Klara - loneliness and the nature of love

The Mother was wearing a coat – a thin, dark, high-ranking one –

Klara - the cost and benefits of technological progress

I still couldn’t see the Coffee Cup Lady’s face, but the man had his eyes tightly shut, and I wasn’t sure if he was very happy or very upset.

Klara - complexity of human emotion

‘Yes, they seem so happy,’ I said. ‘But it’s strange because they also seem upset.’

Klara - perceptive/ the complexity of human emotion

‘It’s just fine, thank you,’ Rick said. ‘That is until you need a fast pizza delivery.’ Everyone laughed even more loudly, and this time Josie joined in, beaming happily.

Rick - social inequality/ the cost of technological progress

‘Peaceful is correct. It’s all quite perfect until you want to go to the movies.’ I knew Rick hoped everyone listening would laugh as the adults had done about the pizza deliveries.

Klara - social inequality/ the cost of technological progress

In one [box] for instance, her eyes were laughing cruelly, but in the next they were filled with sadness.

Klara - The complexity of human emotion

Chrissie. You mustn’t lose faith.

Mr Capaldi - The costs and benefits of technological progress

Do you believe in the human heart? I don’t simply mean the organ, obviously. I’m speaking in the poetic sense.

The Father / Mr Paul - What it means to be human

Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn’t be continued. …There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

Klara - What it means to be human

The new Josie won’t be an imitation. She really will be Josie. A continuation of Josie.

Mr Capaldi - What it means to be human

 Because an impersonation wouldn’t do, however skillful. You’d have to learn her heart, and learn it fully, or you’ll never become Josie in any sense that matters.

Mr Paul / The Father - What it means to be human