Never Let Me Go Quotes (Section B) Flashcards
Quotes on control/power
“they revealed what you were like inside. She (Miss. Emily) said they revealed your soul.”
“You’re lives are set out for you”
“one day we’ll start giving donations”
“Poor creatures.”
“you were brought into this world for a purpose”
“your life has now run the course that’s been set for it”
Quotes on love
“put right what I messed up for you”
“you’ve got to try and get a deferral”
“there’s got to be a chance”
Quotes on isolation
“we rarely stepped beyond the confines of the Cottages”
“I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads” (Kathy’s form of freedom, knowing she cant escape her fate)
Quotes on memory
“I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them.” (Kathy)
“maybe I’m remembering wrong” (Kathy as an unreliable narrator)
“The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
Quotes about hope
“we all know it. We’re modelled from trash… That’s what we come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?” (Ruth)
Never be able to “be film stars” or work in “supermarkets”
“the woman was too close, much closer than we’d ever really wanted” (losing hope in regards to Ruth’s possible, reality hits)
“there’s got to be a chance” (Ruth about deferral)
Quotes on lies
“you’ve been told and not told.” (Miss. Emily)
“dread” “revulsion” felt by Miss Emily towards the clones, “doing what was right” (hypocrisy)
“donate” their “vital organs”
