Never Let Me Go Flashcards
“If you’re to live decent lives,…
you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”
Miss Lucy
“We all know it. We’re modelled…
from trash.”
Ruth
“You were lucky…
pawns”
Miss Emily
“After all, it’s what we’re supposed…
to be doing, isn’t it?’
Ruth
” You’ve been told…
and not told”
Miss Lucy
“i’d like you to forgive me…
but i don’t expect you to”
Ruth
“She was afraid of us…
the same way some one might be afraid of spiders”
“we did it to prove…
you had souls at all”
” a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast…
the old kind world, one she knew could not remain”
“its just sitting there…
stranded on the marshes”
“i half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot…
where everything i’d lost through my childhood had washed up”
“everyone talked about it as though it existed…
though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did”
“the lost corner”
norfolk
woods
“they cast a shadow over the whole of hailsham”
“your…
special”
“Tommy doesn’t like girls who’ve been with…
well, you know, with this person and that”
“poor creatures. what did we do to you? with…
all our schemes and plans”
“I lost Ruth, then i lost Tommy…
But i won’t lose my memories of them”
deplorable…
conditions
if you knew
for sure you’d complete, it would be easier. but they never tell us for sure
the drugs the
pain and the exhaustion
I accepted the invisible reign…
she was holding out
I just posted a bit, then
turned back to the car, and drove off to wherever I was supposed to be
there would always be a
barrier against the world seeing you as properly human
