Never Let Me Go Quotes With Page Numbers. Never Let Me Go Book is a 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro set in an alternative dystopian version of Great Britain in the 1990s in which cloning technology allows for the mass proliferation of organ donation. Medical problems like cancer are cured because organs are harvested from clones through a state-sanctioned program.
The cloned “donors” have their organs taken one at a time until they die. The novel is narrated by Kathy, a clone who works as a “carer” for donors across the country, as she looks back at her upbringing and friendships. Never Let Me Go was made into a film in 2010 and won numerous awards.
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Never Let Me Go Quotes
- “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
- “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
- “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.”
- “What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
- “It was 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 disaster you've left yourself open to.”
- “You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
- “All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
- “You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
- “She always wanted to believe in things.”
- “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, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
- “Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”
- “You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.”
- “That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
- was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
- scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
- harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
- remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
- “It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”
- “You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”
- “We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
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Never Let Me Go Quotes with Page Numbers
- That was when I first understood, really understood, just how lucky we'd been. Chapter 2, Page 6.
- If you think about it, being dependent on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures. Chapter 3, Page 16.
- The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. Chapter 4, Page 36.
- that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you. Chapter 4, Page 36.
- You've been told about it. You're students. You're. Chapter 10, Page 68.
- What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, 'Never Let Me Go'. Chapter 10, Page 70.
- What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, "Never Let Me Go." Chapter 10, Page 70.
- By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies. Chapter 10, Page 72.
- It's just as well the fences at Hailsham aren't electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes. Chapter 11, Page 78.
- If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you. Chapter 11, Page 81.
- Listen, Tommy, your art, it is important. And not just because it's evidence. Chapter 15, Page 108.
- Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life. Chapter 19, Page 139.
- She told Roy that things like pictures, poetry, all that kind of stuff, she said they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul. Chapter 22, Page 175.
- 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. Chapter 33, Page 260.
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