NEVER LET ME GO CHARACTER (and general) QUOTES Flashcards
Miss Emily (guardian)
“Yes, in many ways we fooled you.”
“we sheltered you during those years”
“We’re all afraid of you.”
‘There’s no truth in the rumour. I’m sorry, I truly am.’- Miss Emily to Kathy and Tommy about deferrals
Miss Lucy (guardian)
‘Your lives are set out for you’
“You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided. “
“preparing for your first donations.”
“to have decent lives, you have to know who you are “
“None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day.”
Madame (authority figure)
“Marie-Claude is on your side.”
“Swaying about slowly in time to the song, holding an imaginary baby to my breast”- Kathy when she was being watched by Madame
Chrissie (fellow clone, veteran)
“There was a strange atmosphere going round the table, a kind of tingling going round.”- when Chrissie mentioned deferrals (hope, excitement)
Tommy
“Our models, what they were like, that’s nothing to do with us, Kath. It’s just not worth getting upset about.”
hope/belief
“Ruth, we might be coming here in a few years’ time to visit you. Working in a nice office”
“Thought it was so important for us, to be able to paint and all of that”
memory
“To remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood” (Kathy being a carer and telling stories of Hailsham)
“The earlier years (at Hailsham) - the ones I’ve just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time”… . “But these last years feel different”- Kathy
“How memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly”
“I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them”
Kathy as an unreliable narrator
“I’m pretty sure I got it right”
“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong”
“Tommy didn’t quite put it this way, but im sure that’s how it happened”
Loss/ Grief
“Announced that Miss Lucy had left Hailsham and wouldn’t be returning”
“Thinking it’s all gone now…the closing of hailsham”
“let them go forever”
“It’s too late for that now” (deferral)
“Marie-Claude has given everything for you”
Inhumanity/ humanity
“What it was like outside”
“Any place beyond Hailsham was like a fantasy land”
“None of us could have babies”
“You’ve been told and not told”
“Youll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do
“Your art, it is important. And not just because it’s evidence. But for your own sake”
“Poor creatures”
“We did it to prove you had souls at all”
“Clones - or students”
“We kept things from you, lied to you”
“But a harsh, cruel world”
“until they switch you off”
