key NLMG quotes 📕

Question 1

Memories, loss and relationships

Answer 1

“The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever leaving. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t loose my memories of them.”- Kathy

Question 2

Memory, age and unreliability

Answer 2

“This was a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong”- Kathy

Question 3

Memory and unreliability

Answer 3

“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong”- Kathy

Question 4

Relationships, Hailsham and the exchanges

Answer 4

“The exchanges had a more subtle effect on us… being dependant on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures”- Kathy

Question 5

Ruth’s character

Answer 5

“It wasn’t simply the way we’d ganged up on Ruth; it was the way she’d just taken it”- Kathy

Question 6

Ruth’s character and identity

Answer 6

“I’d had this notion that there were two quite separate Ruths”- Kathy

Question 7

Ruth’s character, retionships and other

Answer 7

What you’ve got to remember about Ruth is… she was always different to us”- Tommy

Question 8

Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, and segragation

Answer 8

“It’s like there’s a line with us on one side and Ruth on the other”- Kathy

Question 9

Tommy, Ruth and Kathy relationships

Answer 9

“Everything between the three of us seemed really delicate”- Kathy

Question 10

Tommy/ Kathy relationships, Ruth’s character

Answer 10

“The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart”- Ruth

Question 11

Ruth and Kathy relationship (Hailsham)

Answer 11

“the sort of loyalty she inspired in me in those days”- Kathy

Question 12

Ruth and Kathy relationship (Dover)

Answer 12

“she’d read my expression exactly as I’d read hers”- Kathy

Question 13

Hailsham, relationships (children)

Answer 13

“we didn’t do things like hug at Hailsham”- Kathy

Question 14

Hailsham relationships (adult)

Answer 14

“all separated but somehow linked by the place we’d come from”- Kathy

Question 15

Growing up, realisation and other

Answer 15

“So you’re waiting… for then moment when you realise that you really are different to them.. who shudder at the very thought of you- of how you were brought into this world and why” - Kathy

Question 16

Growing up, imagery and other

Answer 16

“It’s like walking past a mirror.. and suddenly it shows you something… troubling and strange”- Kathy

Question 17

Identity and purpose

Answer 17

“My name is Kathy H. I’m 31 years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over 11 years.”- Kathy

Question 18

Purpose, identity and dystopia

Answer 18

“It’s what we’re supposed to be doing, isn’t it?”- Ruth

Question 19

Identity, models and truth

Answer 19

“all of us… believed that when you saw the person who you were copied from you’d get some insight into who you were deep down”- Kathy

Question 20

Identity, individuality and models

Answer 20

“Our models, what they are like, that’s nothing to do with us”- Tommy

Question 21

Segregation, imagery and dystopia

Answer 21

“other people used these roads; but that night it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways… were for everyone else”- Kathy

Question 22

Other and imagery

Answer 22

“a pair of large spiders”- Kathy

Question 23

Other, segregation and guardians

Answer 23

“we were different from our guardians, from the people outside”- Kathy

Question 24

Dystopia, other and guardians

Answer 24

“we had to remember that guardians were normal”- Kathy

Question 25

Tommy’s character

Answer 25

“a bad temper, but a big heart”- Miss Emily

Question 26

Other and family

Answer 26

“She had on a half smile, the sort a mother might have in an ordinary family”- Kathy

Question 27

Tommy and Kathy relationship

Answer 27

“When Tommy came up to me it was he hugged first”- Kathy

Question 28

Dystopia and mystery

Answer 28

“If we’re just going to give donations anyway, then die, why all the lessons?”- Kathy

Question 29

Otherness, dystopia and segregation

Answer 29

“They tried to convince themselves that you weren’t like us. That you were less than human so it didn’t matter”- Miss Emily

Question 30

control, dystopia and unreality

Answer 30

“You were simply pawns in a game… you were lucky pawns”- Miss Emily

Question 31

Tommy and maturity

Answer 31

“Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn’t”- Tommy