Never Let Me Go Flashcards

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“If you’re to live decent lives,…

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you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”

Miss Lucy

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“We all know it. We’re modelled…

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from trash.”

Ruth

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“You were lucky…

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pawns”

Miss Emily

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“After all, it’s what we’re supposed…

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to be doing, isn’t it?’

Ruth

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” You’ve been told…

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and not told”

Miss Lucy

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“i’d like you to forgive me…

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but i don’t expect you to”

Ruth

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“She was afraid of us…

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the same way some one might be afraid of spiders”

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“we did it to prove…

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you had souls at all”

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” a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast…

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the old kind world, one she knew could not remain”

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“its just sitting there…

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stranded on the marshes”

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“i half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot…

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where everything i’d lost through my childhood had washed up”

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“everyone talked about it as though it existed…

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though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did”

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“the lost corner”

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norfolk

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woods

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“they cast a shadow over the whole of hailsham”

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“your…

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special”

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“Tommy doesn’t like girls who’ve been with…

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well, you know, with this person and that”

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“poor creatures. what did we do to you? with…

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all our schemes and plans”

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“I lost Ruth, then i lost Tommy…

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But i won’t lose my memories of them”

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deplorable…

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conditions

20
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if you knew

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for sure you’d complete, it would be easier. but they never tell us for sure

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the drugs the

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pain and the exhaustion

22
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I accepted the invisible reign…

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she was holding out

23
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I just posted a bit, then

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turned back to the car, and drove off to wherever I was supposed to be

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there would always be a

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barrier against the world seeing you as properly human