Kathy Quotes

Question 1

“My name is Kathy H / “thirty one years old”, “they” repetition, “I’m not trying to boast”, “she always chooses her own kind”.

Question 2

“Carer’s aren’t machines / “that’s natural” “choose your own kind”

Question 3

“I started seeking out for my donors people from the past” / “people from Hailsham” “when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind” / “stopped resisting”

Question 4

“collection chests under our beds, football, the rounders, the little path, duck pond”

Question 5

“the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his”

Question 6

“I still see things that remind me of Hailsham” / “pass the corner of a misty field” / “large house in the distance” / “I keep looking over to it for as long as possible”

Question 7

“once that happened, there’d be no real sense in which of these balloons belonged to each other”

Question 8

“screaming with laughter” “furious row” / “with your closest friends”

Question 9

“whatever the boys chose to do was pretty remote from us”

Question 10

“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong” / “so I might have some of it wrong” / “my memory” / “I don’t know how it was where you were”

Question 11

“maybe I did feel a little stab of pain”

Question 12

“‘Tommy’s got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt”

Question 13

“I’d come up onto the stage in the middle of his performance”

Question 14

“But I’d had enough of him by now”

Question 15

“I should explain a bit here about the Exchanges we had at Hailsham”

Question 16

“and I wouldn’t mind at all if that’s where I ended up”

Question 17

“we didn’t really talk properly at the cottages”, and before i knew it, i was saying my goodbyes”

Question 18

“But i kept going - even when i heard Ruth’s urgent whisper to me to come back”

Question 19

“The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them”

Question 20

“I’ll have Hailsham with me, safely in my head, and that’ll be something no one can take away”

Question 21

“I imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up”

Question 22

“the fantasy never got beyond that - I didn’t let it - and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be”