Never Let Me Go quotes

Question 1

What quotation describes the furtive nature of Hailsham? ( Secrecy & Education)

Answer 1

“Quiet places were often the worst, because there was always likely to be someone passing within earshot”

Question 2

What quotation describes the woods? (Fear)

Answer 2

“A dark fringe of tree (…) it was like they cast a shadow over the whole of Hailsham”

Question 3

What quotation shows their lack of knowledge at the cottages? (Fear & Education)

Answer 3

They find themselves “awkwardly standing outside the farmhouse, not knowing what else to do”

Question 4

What quotation describes the truth about the galleries? (Secrecy & Education)

Answer 4

“Everyone talked about it as though it existed, though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did”

Question 5

What quotation shows the want to go to Norfolk? (Friendship & Loss)

Answer 5

“I just said to myself, one day i’ll go to Norfolk, and i’ll find the cassette there for her. The lost corner of England”

Question 6

What quotation shows their imagination and hope? (Loss)

Answer 6

“I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything i’d lost through my childhood had washed up”

Question 7

What quotation describes what happened when they went to a stranded boat? (Fear)

Answer 7

“It’s just sitting there, stranded in the marshes”

Question 8

What quotation describes the recovery centre? (Humanity)

Answer 8

“The Kingsfield, in other words, falls way short of a place like Ruth’s(…) with its gleaming tiles and double glazed windows”

Question 9

What quotation describes Kathy while she’s in her dorm? (Humanity & Loss)

Answer 9

“A little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one she knew in her heart could not remain”

Question 10

What does Kathy say, that shows how supervised the students were? ( Education)

Answer 10

“I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we had to have some sort of medical almost every week”

Question 11

What quotation shows how Ruth wants to be forgiven?

Answer 11

‘I’d like you to forgive me, but I don’t expect you to. […] The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart.’

Question 12

What does Tommy say that suggests he knew what was happening?

Answer 12

‘Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn’t.’

Question 13

What quotations describe Miss Emily?

Answer 13

‘Fair’, they ‘respected her decisions’, but at times is seen ‘wandering around Hailsham in a dream’

Question 14

What quotation shows that Madame was scared of the students?

Answer 14

‘She was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders.’

Question 15

What quotation shows Kathy’s kindness and that contrasts Ruth from Kathy?

Answer 15

‘I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out, and then we were off, riding up and down the fence’

Question 16

What is said about the students not being able to smoke?

Answer 16

‘What you must understand is that for you […] it’s much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me. […] You’re . . . special.’

Question 17

What does Miss Lucy say to the students which emphasises the furtive nature of Hailsham?

Answer 17

‘The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand’

Question 18

What quotation shows that Ruth wants to change?

Answer 18

‘Ruth realized the way she’d been carrying on with Tommy was all wrong for the Cottages, and she set about changing’

Question 19

What quotation emphasises the reality of knowing the truth?

Answer 19

‘We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.’

Question 20

What quotation shows that Ruth tells Kathy that Tommy wouldn’t date her?

Answer 20

Tommy doesn’t like girls who’ve been with . . . well, you know, with this person and that.

Question 21

What quotation shows that Hailsham will forever be a memory and the friendships that were formed there?

Answer 21

‘We hugged […] as a way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both of our memories.’

Question 22

What quotation shows potential regret and sympathy of the students?

Answer 22

‘Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?’

Question 23

What quotation shows that Kathy misses Tommy?

Answer 23

‘If I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the Horizon […], and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy’

Question 24

What quotation shows that Kathy had lost everything but that memories remain?

Answer 24

‘I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them. I suppose I lost Hailsham too.’

Question 25

What quotation portrays Ruth as the dominant one in her friendship with Kathy?

Answer 25

‘So that’s it, that’s what’s upsetting poor little Kathy. Ruth isn’t paying enough attention to her. Ruth’s got big new friends…’

Question 26

What quotation shows Tommy’s view on completion?

Answer 26

‘If you knew for sure you’d complete, it would be easier. But they never tell us for sure.’

Question 27

What quotation shows the very virtual demonstration of sex as a way of describing how its something they shouldn’t do?

Answer 27

Uses a skeleton to demonstrate ‘the nuts and bolts of how you did it’ but says ‘sex affects emotions in ways you’d never expect.’

Question 28

What quotation depicts the purpose of taking away the students art?

Answer 28

‘We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.’

Question 29

What quotation shows how the students felt judged upon by the ‘normal’ people and that they felt huge separation?

Answer 29

“There would always be a barrier against the world seeing you as properly human”

Question 30

What is the first sentence, which shows the caring nature of Kathy and shows that the Ishiguro displays her job of part of her identity?

Answer 30

“My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and i’ve been a carer now for over eleven years”

Question 31

What quotation suggests the student’s have a lack of freedom?

Answer 31

“I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off wherever it was i was supposed to be”

Question 32

What quotation shows the student’s apprehensiveness of the future?

Answer 32

“Like a little tribe” “i kept worrying that one of the strings would come unraveled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky”

Question 33

What does miss emily say that shows how set out their lives were?

Answer 33

“your life must now run the course thats been set for it”