NLMG quotes Flashcards
“the talk mostly focused on miss lucy herself…
rather than on what she’d been trying to tells us”
“was it true once though?…
before hailsham closed? “
“tommy and i couldnt…
quite believe that was the end of it”
“it’s something for them to dream about…
a little fantasy what harm is there? …you’ve thought carefully. you’ve hoped carefully”
so there’s definitely nothing…
no deferral, nothing like that”
“ruth wanted…
that other thing for us”
“we all know it, so why dont we face it…
we’re not modelled from that sort…”
“we’re modelled from trash…
junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps”
“tommy’s figure…
raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out”
“maybe i did know…
somewhere deep down”
“more and more tommy tended to
identify himself with the other donors at the centre”
“the currents too strong they’ve got to….
let go, drift apart thats how i think it is with us… we can’t stay together forever”
“all sorts of
rubbish”
Norfolk is covered in
“debris”
“but it might just be some trend…
that came and went but for us its our life”
“she’d been talking about offices right from the start of the winter….
but when it really took on life when it became her dream future was after that morning she and i walked into the village”
“when the great breakthroughs in science followed ….
one after the other so rapidly there wasnt time to take stock”
“then it was too late…
there was no way to reverse the process”
the clones offer potential to cure diseases like “cancer…
motor neurone disease, heart disease”
despite scientific advancements the clones offer, miss Emily is “frail and ….
contorted”
there are fears that clones would be …
“superior” compared to humans
the humans hopes turned to fears that clones may “take their …
place in society”
James Morningdale wanted to create children with “enhanced…
characteristics…. superior intelligence, superior athleticism”
humans “overwhelming concern was that….
their own children, their spouses, their parents, their friends didn’t die”
the clones are seen as “less than….
human”
James morningdale has “taken his research much further…
than anyone before him, far beyond legal boundaries”
the humans had not time to “ask…
sensible questions”
the clones visit norfolk on a “crisp…
sunny day”
for the clones norfolk is a “sense of ….
comfort”
on the trip they go to look for ruths
“possible”
they find out that ruth’s possible has her “dream..
future”
the trip also creates the hope for …
“deferrals”
the clones decide to “hardly…
talk about it”
even at hailsham there was “little….
discussion”
when they discover the truth about deferrals they “hardly
discussed it”
the guardians try to “stamp….
out” rumours of deferrals
the rumours keep being recreated “from…
scratch”
deferrals can be seen as a “wishful….
fantasy”
ruth “wanted to….
believe”
kathy and tommy want to ….
“know” the truth
at the end kathy has a ….
“fantasy” of seeing Tommy again
kathy “didn’t…
let it” become a hope
the norfolk trip as brings the trio “close again….
[it was an atmosphere]that they didn’t want to be broken”
“tommy’s tantrums” [can be seen as]….
“instinct”
kathy suggests that tommy always knew “deep…
down”
