never let me go

• 'poor creatures'
• "im kathy h. im thirtty years old, and I've been a carer now for eleven years"
• "Tommys got his shirt on. his favourite polo shirt"
• "what made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three "never let me go""
• "what we want to now, Miss Emily, is it the rumours true or not"
• "its not something worth copying"
• "I can see it now like its here in front of me"
• "absolutely dreading the idea of her turning her gaze on me"
• "ruth came unto me one lunchtime, looked me up and down"
• "ruth came up to me one lunchtime, looked me up and down"
• "while ruth seemed to get crosser and crosser"
• "all right in that case, ill let you be one of her secret guards"
• "not a word! and smiled again"
• "put my arm around Ruths shoulder"
• "ruth suddenly sighed and turned to us "to be honest" she said "I knew all along it was stupid"
• "that's what's upsetting poor little kathy"
• "it was ruth who took it further than anyone else"
• "id assumed ruth was something of a chess expert and that she'd be able to teach the game"
• "none of us minded the discomforts one bit-it was all part of the excitement of being at the cottages"
• "I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything id ever lost since my childhood had washed up'
• "a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the feild and gradually get larger until id see it was Tommy"
• "all we could really see was a dark fringe of trees, but I certainly wasn't the only one of my age to feel the presence day and night"
• "there have been times over the years when ive tried to leave Hailsham behind, when ive told myself I shouldn't look back so much. but then came a point where I just stopped resisting"
• "it does sound a bit weird but it'll probably go away. just to do with the different food we are eating here"
• "you Hailsham students even after you've been out on he world like this you still don't know the half of it"
• "sometimes this meant we kept things from you, lied to you yes"
• "virtually falling down"
• "they tried convincing themselves you weren't really like us, that you were less human"
• "poor creatures"
• "the woods played on our minds most after darK"
• "how we were different from our guardians, from the people outside"
• "wed grown up together at hailsham"
• "you wouldn't think so if it was your possible wed been looking for"
• "looking back now I can see why the exchanges become so important to us. for a start, they were our only means, aside from the sales of building up a collection of our own personal possessions"
• "jackies giraffes, ruth said with a laugh. they were so beautiful I used to have one"
• "ive tried to leave Hailsham behind when ive told myself I shouldn't look back so much"
• "im sure somewhere in your childhood, you had an expirience like ours that day"
• "I lost ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them"
• "we're in the open, under a warm sun, so its probably the sand at the end of the long jump in the north playing feild"
• "it brings back memories of the afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days"