Never Let Me Go Quotations

Question 1

“My name is…

Answer 1

“My name is Kathy H, I’m 31 years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over 11 years.” - Ch1

• Introduces ideas of identity. This statistical analysis of who she is is almost medical in nature, and hints that there is something strange about Kathy’s position.
• Furthermore, ‘carer’ is not a title recognised by the reader, yet she keeps from explaining it. This creates withheld information.
• Introducing yourself with a surname initial is not normal.

Question 2

“Or maybe…

Answer 2

“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong […] maybe […] maybe […]” - Ch1

• Unreliable narrator – clearly establishes that what information we will receive through Kathy we must be sceptical about.
• This asks questions about memory. The fact that you could remember something ‘wrong’ suggests that people’s accounts and experiences of what happened change over time.

Question 3

“But she was afraid…

Answer 3

“But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn’t been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.” - Ch3

• ‘We hadn’t been ready for that’ reinforces their need to avoid the truth – whenever they try and find something out, it will result in them feeling uncomfortable, so they learn to avoid it. Maybe these kind of events resulted in the students learning to not try and figure things out.
• Using ‘we’ creates a group identity. Kathy’s personal feelings seem irrelevant, or at least we don’t hear of them.
• The comparison of ‘spiders’ dehumanises them and adds towards evidence for us to question their humanity.

Question 4

“I accepted the…

Answer 4

“I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out” - Ch4

• Metaphor for Ruth’s control – Kathy ‘accepted’ it willingly.

Question 5

“There was no doubt…

Answer 5

“There was no doubt she was the leader” - Ch5

Question 6

“A dark fringe…

Answer 6

“A dark fringe of trees […that] cast a shadow over the whole of Hailsham” - Ch5

Question 7

“[when Marge K…

Answer 7

“[when Marge K did something really embarrassing to them, they] chose to punish her” - Ch5

• This is said so casually with no hint of regret, although arguably the use of ‘we’ attempts to spread the blame. This could demonstrate how normalised this bullying culture was against those who did not conform – it was not discouraged.

Question 8

“We each played…

Answer 8

“We each played our part in preserving the fantasy” - Ch5

• Because they ‘each’ had a part, we see how it is their entire cooperation that requires them to hide from the truth.

Question 9

“But I’d seen it,…

Answer 9

“But I’d seen it, as she’d intended me to” - Ch5

• Demonstrates Ruth’s manipulative nature.

Question 10

“Any place beyond Hailsham…

Answer 10

“Any place beyond Hailsham was like a fantasy land” - Ch6

• Demonstrates their isolation from the outside world.
• The use of simile further demonstrates the surreality of what lies beyond Hailsham.

Question 11

“You’ve been told…

Answer 11

“You’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand.” - Ch7

Question 12

“I chose…

Answer 12

“I chose [Harry C] for a number of reasons” - Ch8

• Shows Kathy’s immature attitude to relationships – she looks at this in a matter-of-fact way, as opposed to something with deeper meaning.

Question 13

“When it’s time for donations…

Answer 13

“When it’s time for donations, I’ll be able to do it really well” - Ch9

• Demonstrates the conditioning of clones to be invested in sacrificing their life for others.
• This is also ironic, as Tommy ended up being somewhat of a great donor.

Question 14

“Like they were in a play…

Answer 14

“Like they were in a play and he’d forgotten his lines” - Ch10

• Continues to show the immaturity of their relationships – they are rehearsed. At this level of reading, since they are only showing relationships how they see them on TV, we could interpret this to them not having the same sense of love as we do, and them being less human. However, this is questionable since there is other evidence pointing towards their equally deep humanity.

Question 15

“Like when you make a move…

Answer 15

“Like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of the disaster you’ve left yourself open to.” - Ch10

• This presents their relationship like a game – no close feelings whatsoever, merely competition.

Question 16

“I had this notion…

Answer 16

“I had this notion there were two quite separate Ruths” - Ch11

• Back up with Ruth’s different voices from another quotation.

Question 17

“Not denying…

Answer 17

“Not denying certain things, implying others” - Ch12

• Kathy recognises Ruth’s methods of manipulation.

Question 18

“I’m keeping…

Answer 18

“I’m keeping you” - Ch13

• The power dynamic between Ruth and Tommy is very clear – here, she treats him almost like some possession or prize. This further presents their relationships as like a game, and later learn from Ruth’s confession that this was intentional.

Question 19

“We’re modelled…

Answer 19

“We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.” - Ch14

Question 20

[Ruth] “Come with us”

Answer 20

[Ruth] “Come with us” [Kathy] “No” - Ch14

• First time Kathy doesn’t obey Ruth – turning point in power dynamics.

Question 21

“If we’re splitting…

Answer 21

“If we’re splitting, then I’ll stay with Kath” - Ch14

• Double meaning of ‘splitting’, hinting that Tommy truly likes Kathy.

Question 22

“[Miss Emily had said that creativity] revealed…

Answer 22

“[creativity] revealed what you were like inside […] revealed your soul” - Ch15

Question 23

“Fantastical…

Answer 23

“Fantastical creatures” - Ch16

Question 24

“I didn’t know…

Answer 24

“I didn’t know how to judge it “ - Ch16

Question 25

“Suddenly he was…

Answer 25

“Suddenly he was really child-like again, with no front whatsoever, and I could see something dark and troubling gathering behind his eyes” - Ch16

• This happened just after Ruth said she and Kathy thought his animals were silly.
• This shows that Tommy had to put on a ‘front’ to protect himself from the outside world. It is Kathy’s apparent betrayal that causes it to break, showing how much Kathy’s approval meant to Tommy.

Question 26

“I’ve got to tell…

Answer 26

“I’ve got to tell you this. I wouldn’t forgives myself if I kept quiet much longer.” - Ch17

Question 27

“After you left, she…

Answer 27

“After you left, she got worse. You know, always telling everyone what to do.” - Ch18

Question 28

“It was like someone coming along…

Answer 28

“It was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man’s fist. Once that happened, there’d be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other any more.” - Ch18

Question 29

“Not so long ago, the woods…

Answer 29

“Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out” - Ch19

Question 30

“I could now see how its…

Answer 30

“I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the timber frames of the little cabin were crumbling away. “ - Ch19

Question 31

“I was looking out of the window and…

Answer 31

“I was looking out of the window and everything was flooded […] and I could see rubbish floating by [,…but] it was nice and tranquil, just like it is here.” - Ch19

• The ‘rubbish’ could symbolise the clones, with the ‘tranquil[ity]’ symbolising society’s indifference.

Question 32

“After all, it’s what…

Answer 32

“After all, it’s what we’re supposed to be doing, isn’t it?” - Ch19

Question 33

“You see it in films sometimes…

Answer 33

“You see it in films sometimes, when one person’s pointing a gun at another person, and the one with the gun’s making the other one do all kinds of things. Then suddenly there’s a mistake, a tussle, and the gun’s with the second person. And the second person looks at the first person with a gleam, a kind of can’t-believe-my-luck expression that promises all kinds of vengeance.” - Ch19

• ‘Making the other one do all kinds of things’ is comparable to Ruth’s manipulation – we see just how powerful it was here to Kathy, since she would compare it to someone pointing a ‘gun’ at her head.
• This is a highly cinematic metaphorical description (quite literally, since ‘you see it in films’) which is ironic because what’s happening in reality is that both of them are seated in a car doing very little. This hyperbolic metaphor demonstrates the sheer amount of psychological action and manipulation occurring between Kathy and Ruth that could lend itself to a cinematic film scene.

Question 34

“The drugs…

Answer 34

“The drugs and the pain and the exhaustion” - Ch1

Question 35

“He wanted not just to…

Answer 35

“He wanted not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood” - Ch1

Question 36

“The reason they go for Tommy’s because…

Answer 36

“‘The reason they go for Tommy’s because he’s a layabout.’// Then everyone was talking at once about how Tommy never even tried to be creative” - Ch1

• Introduces importance of creativity in Hailsham

Question 37

“With a big open…

Answer 37

“With a big open smile that immediately irritated me. […] I felt like saying […] but […]” - Ch2

Question 38

“The usual stuff…

Answer 38

“The usual stuff – weird things in his bed, a worm in his cereal” - Ch2

Question 39

“Virtually everyone shot…

Answer 39

“Virtually everyone shot daggers at Polly, before turning eagerly to Miss Lucy” - Ch4

Question 40

Ideas of competition or conflict between Kathy and Ruth:

Answer 40

• “[Moira B was really a] natural ally” - Ch5
• “[Kathy would be Ruth’s] natural successor” - Ch9
• “Like when you made a move in chess”
• “When one person’s pointing a gun at the other person”

Question 41

Describe the chess incident.

Answer 41

[Ch5]
- Ruth acted as if she knew what was going on around chess games, making comments (‘amazingly dim’)
- Kathy bought a chess set and asked Ruth to teach her
- Ruth always ‘pretended she had something else really urgent to do’
- She eventually taught Kathy, but making up the rules – Kathy noticed and stormed off
- Implicitly because of this, Kathy was ‘expelled’ from the secret guard.
- Moira B who also was previously expelled, dismissed it as ‘just another of Ruth’s made-up things’, which made Kathy cross.

Question 42

“All this effort…

Answer 42

“All this effort, all this planning, just to upset my dearest friend” - Ch5

Question 43

What happens after the pencil case incident?

Answer 43

[Ch5]
- Ruth seemed ‘on the verge of tears’, and then ‘walked off into the rain’
[Ch6]
- To make up Kathy acted as if Ruth was important to Miss Geraldine: ‘If Ruth goes and asks Miss Geraldine, then we’d stand a chance […] I could see she was pleased’, ‘[Kathy] slow[ed] right down so that Ruth […] could instead pass through the door beside Miss Geraldine’
- ‘Little things like this might have pleased Ruth, but they were still far away from what had actually happened’, ‘[Once when Kathy was thinking about this situation,] a heavy mix of remorse and frustration brought me virtually to tears’
- One day, the perfect chance came about, and when someone asked Ruth where she got the pencil case from, Kathy intervened, saying it was ‘a big mystery’
- Ruth now seemed really ‘pleased’, and would always be ‘looking around for some opportunity to do something nice, something really special for [Kathy]’

Talk about how ironic it is that this entire incident occurred without Ruth ever lying she got the pencil case from Miss Geraldine, or Kathy ever accusing her of seeing Ruth’s purchase in the records, then manage to fall out over it, and eventually make up, without even ever mentioning the whole thing to each other directly.

Question 44

“There was even a rumour than some classic books…

Answer 44

“There was even a rumour than some classic books – like the Sherlock Holmes ones – weren’t in our library because the main characters smoked too much” - Ch6

Question 45

“The earlier years…

“But those last years…

Answer 45

“The earlier years […] tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time” - Ch7

“But those last years […] were more serious, and in some ways darker […] like day moving into night” - Ch7

Question 46

Times Ishiguro used animalistic imagery to describe those who do not conform:

Answer 46

• “Mad animal” - Ch1
• “[Miss Lucy] had a squat, almost bulldoggy figure” - Ch3
• “[Miss Lucy] looked like a crouching animal waiting to pounce” - Ch7, before her revelation
• Tommy’s animals

Question 47

“Before you’re old…

Answer 47

“Before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do.” - Ch7

Question 48

“If it did come up, people tended to say…

“[Tommy] came up with a theory…

Answer 48

“If it did come up, people tended to say: ‘Well, so what? We already knew all that.’ But that had been Miss Lucy’s point exactly.” - Ch7

“[Tommy] came up with a theory[: ] the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand. […] In other words, […] the guardians managed to smuggle into our heads a lot of the basic facts about our futures.” - Ch7

Question 49

What are different people’s coping mechanisms for difficult situations?

Answer 49

Tommy: rage, honesty
Kathy: avoid, euphemise
Ruth: control others, otherwise break down
Other students: dark humour, e.g. unzipping incident

Question 50

“We’ve both done…

Answer 50

“We’ve both done daft things to hurt each other, but it’s enough now. […] The scores are even again.” - Ch9

Question 51

Ishiguro: “Memory is…

Answer 51

“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.”

Question 52

Ishiguro: “The everyday…

Answer 52

“The everyday slave”

Question 53

“When she spoke again…

“Then she added…

Answer 53

“When she spoke again it was in an entirely new voice.” - Ch10, after Kathy is caught out pressing Ruth about why she copies the veterans

“Then she added, in quite a different voice:” - Ch10

Question 54

[About Ruth’s comment on her and the Veterans] “It was…

Answer 54

“It was betrayal” - Ch11

Question 55

What did Ruth reveal about her collection in the Cottages?

Answer 55

• Ruth and Kathy often had conversations in the Cottages where they ‘exchanged [their] deepest feelings’.
• One conversation, Ruth revealed she’d noticed the veterans didn’t have collections; ‘it wasn’t normal’.
• She then got Keffers to take the possessions away.
• Ruth noted that Kathy on the other hand was ‘never embarrassed about [her] collection and [she] kept it’; Ruth then said ‘I wish now I’d done that too’.
• This shows how differently Kathy and Ruth reacted to them leaving Hailsham, to their past memories, and how they interact with others.

Question 56

[Talking about possibles and dream jobs] “Quite a few students…

Answer 56

[Talking about possibles and dream jobs] “Quite a few students wanted to be drivers” - Ch12

Question 57

“It showed this beautifully modern…

Answer 57

“It showed this beautifully modern open-plan office” - Ch12

Question 58

“Ruth was making a big effort…

Answer 58

“Ruth was making a big effort to present not just herself, but all of us, in the right way to Chrissie and Rodney” - Ch13

• ‘Right’ is very specific – it implies a singular correct answer. The fact that Ruth should know what the ‘right’ way even would be is unusual, since a ‘right’ way shouldn’t exist. The fact that it is Ruth deciding what the ‘right’ way would be asserts her dominance and need for control.

Question 59

[After Ruth implying they already knew about deferrals (‘well, they told us a few things’)]
“‘I don’t…

Answer 59

“‘I don’t remember it,’ Tommy said flatly. [… Ruth said to Chrissie] ‘What you’ve got to realise is that even though Tommy was at Hailsham, he isn’t like a real Hailsham student. He was left out of everything and people were always laughing at him.’” - Ch13

• This is demonstrates again Tommy’s honest approach, but also shows the repercussions of this honesty, as honesty is shunned at Hailsham – they ‘sheltered’, ‘fooled’ the clones. By calling him not ‘a real Hailsham student’ puts him out of alignment with this culture of avoidance and demonstrates how he does not conform.

Question 60

“But now, in that gallery, the woman [Ruth’s possible] was…

Answer 60

“But now, in that gallery, the woman [Ruth’s possible] was too close, much closer than we’d ever really wanted.” - Ch14

Question 61

[After Tommy was addressed by the gallery worker] “as I was hurrying over…

Answer 61

“As I was hurrying over to help him out, the lady asked: ‘Are you art students?’
‘Not exactly,’” - Ch14

Question 62

“Everything suddenly felt…
I had to really…

Answer 62

“Everything suddenly felt perfect: an hour set aside, stretching ahead of us, and there wasn’t a better way to spend it. I had to really hold myself back from giggling stupidly, or jumping up and down on the pavement like a little kid.” - Ch15

• This demonstrates how happy Kathy is being with Tommy when Ruth is out of the picture.
• The fact that she felt like a ‘little kid’ could possibly reflect how this compares to her feelings when she was younger at Hailsham.
• Kathy feels the need to ‘hold [her]self back’; this contrasts with Tommy’s ‘open’ approach to feelings, and how much Kathy suppresses them and puts them off.

Question 63

“When you lost it, I used to think about…

Answer 63

“When you lost it, I used to think about […] what it would be like, if I found it and brought it to you, what you’d say, your face, all of that.” - Ch15

• This is very open and honest of Tommy – he is indirectly revealing how he felt about Kathy in Hailsham. Kathy, on the other hand, has never really addressed directly how she felt about Tommy, despite there being much evidence that she had feelings for him, from making an effort to see he was okay in Ch1, to it being ‘perfect’ and her nearly ‘giggling stupidly’ when they got to spend time alone together without Ruth, to her getting emotional after Ruth’s confession and them finally being together after Ruth dies, wishing they could’ve had more time. Perhaps it is Kathy’s avoidance of the truth that allowed Ruth to step in between them and meant they couldn’t be together sooner.
• The repetition of ‘you’ and ‘your’ emphasises how much he thought about Kathy.

Question 64

“I knew Ruth would find out..
On that journey…

Answer 64

“I knew Ruth would find out sooner or later, but I didn’t want her to find out just yet. On that journey home, with the darkness setting in over those long empty roads, it felt like the three of us were close again and I didn’t want anything to come along and break that mood.” - Ch15

• Kathy ‘knew’ that Ruth would find out, and we can anticipate that the longer she leaves it, the bigger of a secret it will become, and the worse the consequences will be when Ruth does find out. However, it is this postponing of the inevitable that Kathy does throughout the novel, leading to worse consequences when she does address the truth.
• The ‘darkness setting in’ foreshadows darkly through pathetic fallacy of how things are only going to get worse between the three of them, along with the foreshadowing that ‘Ruth would find out’, which is particularly significant coming from a retrospective narrator, who knows that this is true. We now wait in dread for the moment that things go wrong, foreshadowed heavily by the end of this chapter.

Question 65

“It was like being given a…

Answer 65

“It was like being given a maths problem when your brain’s exhausted[…]. Something in me just gave up.” - Ch16

Question 66

Examples of Ruth patronising Tommy:

Answer 66

• “Ruth said in a mock whisper: ‘Tommy’s big Gallery theory!”
• “Sweet Boy”
• “sweety gums”
• “sweety”
• “in front of our dear friend […] our dear Kathy”

(Ch16)

Question 67

“What’s the rhubarb patch…

Answer 67

“What’s the rhubarb patch got to do with any of this?
[…]
What’s the rhubarb patch got to do with anything?” - Ch17

• Subtle reminder that Kathy’s narration is not verbatim.

Question 68

“But I know he doesn’t see you like…

Answer 68

“But I know he doesn’t see you like, you know, a proper girlfriend. […] Besides, you know how Tommy is. He can be fussy.”

–> “It wasn’t long after that I made my decision” - Ch17

Question 69

“We hugged…

Answer 69

“We hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham” - Ch18

Question 70

“Yeah okay, we don’t…

Answer 70

“Yeah okay, we don’t need to hear every last thing about her”
[…] “That’s exactly what I was about to say…”
[…] “My heart had done a little leap, because […] with that little laugh of agreement, it felt as though Tommy and I had come close together after all the years”

• Compare this exchange with Kathy and Tommy feeling close on the Norfolk trip: Kathy only feels close to Tommy when he dismisses Ruth; Kathy is obviously still treating this like a ‘game’. Any moment they have together that excludes Ruth is one that makes her heart ‘leap’. This both foreshadows Ruth’s confession of keeping them apart (as up to this point she has been the only factor stopping them being together) and further demonstrates Kathy’s unreliability in terms of avoidance of the truth, since it is highly likely she has been in love with Tommy throughout the novel, yet refuses to admit it.

Question 71

Examples of euphemisms in the novel:

Answer 71

• ‘donations’
• ‘recovery centres’
• ‘to complete’
• ‘now Ruth has gone’

Question 72

“Little islands of…

Answer 72

“Little islands of lucidity donors sometimes get in the midst of their ghastly battles” - Ch19

• Only bother to use if supporting ‘the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion’, and use to show how much Kathy avoids the reality of donations.

Question 73

“She saw and decided…

Answer 73

“She saw and decided in a second what we were, because you could see her stiffen – as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her.” - Ch21

Question 74

What was said about the painting of Hailsham?

Answer 74

Tommy insisted the painting was of Hailsham, of ‘the bit round the back of the duck pond’. Kathy, however, does not remember this, and is convinced it is ‘just a bit of countryside’. Tommy replies with ‘you must be able to remember’. This is parallel to Kathy refusing to believe Ruth could have forgotten about the Rhubarb patch, and since Kathy is the one who endlessly goes over memories, it is strange that she might have forgotten this. This shows us just how personal memory is, and just how differently each of our own records of the past can become.

Question 75

“Poor creatures…

Answer 75

“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?” - Ch21

• The constant separation of the ‘we’ and the ‘you’ truly isolates the clones from society.

Question 76

“If they’re so foolish…

Answer 76

“If they’re so foolish, let them believe it” – Ch22

Question 77

“So my dears, we have…

Answer 77

“So my dears, we have a few minutes more” [because it turned out not to be the removal men at the door] - Ch22

• This further increases the sense of panic with running out of time, as surely they must have to leave any second now – they have been given too many chances.
• The fact that an old cabinet is being prioritised over the knowledge of the clones shows how worthless they are as individuals, even to Miss Emily.

Question 78

Madame: “Creatures”, Miss Emily…

Answer 78

Madame: “Creatures”, Miss Emily “Students”
- Madame was never a guardian, so is a better representative of how the outside world view the clones. As Madame calls them ‘creatures’, it is likely the rest of the world see them that way too.

Question 79

“Clones”…

Answer 79

“Clones” is only mentioned twice in the novel, and only in direct speech, once in Ruth’s outburst, and secondly in Miss Emily’s revelation.

Question 80

“How can you ask such a world…

Answer 80

“How can you ask such a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, […] to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days?” - Ch22

• From the readers’ perspective, this ironically does seem a ‘dark’ society as it is.

Question 81

“You were lucky…

Answer 81

“You were lucky pawns” - Ch22

• Link to chess analogy, how Ruth and Kathy were metaphorically playing mental chess against each other, indicating their psychological sophistication. However, here, they are not the players of chess, but the pieces – the weakest, sacrificial pieces.

Question 82

“Sometimes that meant we…

Answer 82

“Sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you. But we sheltered you during those years and we gave you your childhoods.” - Ch22

Question 83

“Very good. A mind…

Answer 83

“Very good. A mind reader. You should be on stage.” - Ch22

• This isn’t outstandingly impressive – it’s the only notable moment they had together. However, Madame regards any kind of human-like intuition from the clones as what should be impossible – she should be a magician.
• It links to societies fears of the clones becoming superhuman as well.

Question 84

Notable quotations from Tommy’s rage final rage:

Answer 84

• “Raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out.”
• “I tried to run to him, but the mud sucked my feet down.”
• “Caked in mud and distorted in fury”
• “Just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.”

Question 85

“Because at some level…

Answer 85

“Because at some level you always knew”
“No, it was always just me. Me being an idiot.”
“But that’s a funny idea. Maybe I did know”
- Ch22

Question 86

“These two people in the water…

Answer 86

“These two people in the water, trying to hold on to each other, […] but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. […] It’s a shame Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives.”

Question 87

Notable quotations from the final scene:

Answer 87

• “There was a fence keeping me from stepping into the field, with two lines of barbed wire”
• “All sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled”
• “I […] imagined this spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up.”
• “I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d maybe wave, even call. The fantasy never got beyond that – I didn’t let it – and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.” - Ch23

Question 88

(Ishiguro) “To create this world…

Answer 88

“To create this world that seems very strange and distant initially, but then hopefully the reader would start to recognise it as their own story”

Question 89

“I shook her…

Answer 89

“I shook her off roughly and glared at her through the tears.
“It’s too late for that. Way too late.”” - Ch19

Question 90

“But I could have…
But I…

Answer 90

“But I could have done something. I could have challenged Ruth […]. I could even have gone up to Tommy and hugged him, right there in front of Ruth.”
“But I didn’t say or do anything”
- Ch16

Question 91

“Shadowy…

Answer 91

“Shadowy objects in test tubes”