Quotations Flashcards
Scared of the outside world
‘A dark fringe of trees […] it was like they cast a shadow over the whole of Hailsham’
Miss lucy doesn’t agree with Hailsham
‘You’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told but none of you really understand.’
Madame’s reaction to the clones
‘she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders.’
Kathy wants to hold on
‘Never let me go’
Kathy feels she’s lost a lot
‘I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but i won’t lose my memories of them […] I suppose i lost Hailsham too.’
Clones are kept separate
‘This is a barrier between you and the world’
Clones are different to humans
‘empty vessel’
Ruth regrets how she acted.
‘I’d like you to forgive me, but i don’t expect you to […] The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart.
Shows tommy’s and kathy’s intimacy
‘our little heart to heart
Tommy’s tantrum at the end
‘Tommy’s figure, raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out’
Tommy is hinting to kathy that he likes her and wants to be with her, not Ruth
‘We’re going to be leaving here soon. It’s not like a game anymore. We’ve got to think carefully.’
Kathy’s reaction to tommy’s hint
‘was lost for what to say’
tommy’s resignation, devoid of hope
‘So there’s definitely nothing. No deferral, nothing like that.’
Tommy has given up/resigned
‘I don’t see how it matters […] I don’t see what difference it makes to anything.’
They don’t understand the biology of being a clone
Tommy is worried about his elbow ‘unzipping’
Clones health is important to the guardians
‘for you, all of you, it’s much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me.’
clones are dehumanised (3)
‘empty vessel’ ‘modelled from trash’ ‘to prove you had souls at all’
cottages
‘remains of a farm that had gone out of business […] virtually falling down.’
recovery centres are run down
‘There aren’t nearly enough bathrooms and the ones there are are hard to keep clean, get freezing in winter and are generally too far from the donors’ rooms.’
