Never Let Me Go Quotations

Question 1

Kathy - Unreliability

Answer 1

‘Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong.’ (Chapter 1)

Question 2

Ruth - Power

Answer 2

‘There was no doubt she was the leader’ (Secret Guard - Chapter 5)

Question 3

Kathy - Conformity

Answer 3

‘I’d have to let it go’ (Pencil Case - Chapter 5)

Question 4

Ruth - Manipulation

Answer 4

‘Two quite separate Ruths’ (Cottages - Chapter 11)

Question 5

Power & Control - Conditioning

Answer 5

‘No real idea … about distances’ (Cottages - Chapter 11)

Question 6

Power & Control - Miss Lucy

Answer 6

‘you’ve been told and not told’ (Miss Lucy - Chapter 7)

Question 7

Power & Control - Knowledge

Answer 7

‘We certainly knew - though not in any deep sense’ or ‘Always just too young to understand’ (Smoking Lecture/Miss Lucy - Chapter 6/7 )

Question 8

Art & Creativity - Subjects

Answer 8

‘Art Appreciation’ (Hailsham - Chapter 3)

Question 9

Relationships - Kathy to Ruth

Answer 9

‘Just to upset my dearest friend’ (Pencil Case - Chapter 5)

Question 10

Kathy/Relationships - Cruelty

Answer 10

‘Hazy fantasies’ and ‘Playing fantastic scenes in my head where I’d expose her and force her to admit she’d made it up’ (Pencil Case - Chapter 5)

Question 11

Art & Creativity/Tommy - Miss Lucy

Answer 11

‘What she said was that if I didn’t want to be creative … that was perfectly all right’ (Miss Lucy - Chapter 2)

Question 12

Ruth - Models

Answer 12

‘We all know it. We’re modelled from trash.’ (Norfolk - Chapter 14)

Question 13

Art & Creativity - Tommy’s Theory

Answer 13

‘That’s why the gallery was so important’ (Norfolk - Chapter 15)

Question 14

Relationships - Cottages

Answer 14

‘how so many of their mannerisms were copied from the television’ (Cottages - Chapter 10

Question 15

Tommy - Loyalty to Kathy

Answer 15

‘I’ll stay with Kath. If we’re splitting, I’ll stay with Kath’ (Norfolk - Chapter 14)

Question 16

Ruth - Lying

Answer 16

‘she often bluffed and implied all sorts of things I knew weren’t true’ (Cottages - Chapter 11)