Never let me go quotes

• ‘ won’t be a carer any more come the end of they year, and though I’ve got a lot out of it, I have to admit I’ll welcome the chance to rest - to stop and think and remember‘ - Kathy
• 'We were all so young then that we didn’t know what we wanted or needed' - Kathy
• 'The donors are like animals really, aren’t they? They’re not human at all' - Ruth
• 'They told us we could do anything we liked with our time as long as we kept up our work' - Kathy
• 'She said she thought about me sometimes too, but never as much as I did her' - Tommy
• 'She looked older than the others, more tired too' - Kathy about Miss Emily
• ‘Your art, it is important. And not just because it’s evidence. But for your own sake. You’ll get a lot from it, just for yourself’ - Miss Lucy to Tommy
• ‘None of you will go to America, none of you will become film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets‘ - Miss Lucy
• ‘Your lives are set out for you’ - Miss Lucy
• ‘We were like children playing at being grown up’ - Kathy
• ‘We were all very close then, we had been through everything together’ - Kathy
• ‘There wasn’t any point pretending we weren’t going to die’ - Ruth
• ’I was pretty much ready to become a donor. It felt right. After all it’s what we’re supposed to be doing, isn‘t it?’ - Ruth
• ‘It should have been you two. I’m not pretending I didn’t always see that’ - Ruth to Kathy and Tommy
• ‘What I want is for you to put it right. Put right what I messed up for you’ - Ruth
• ‘There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind… But then came a point when I just stopped resisting’ - Kathy
• ‘It seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night‘ -Kathy and Tommy standing on the hill
• ‘You’ve been told and not told’ - Miss Lucy
• ‘You poor creatures‘ - Madame
• ‘This was a long time ago so I may have got some of it wrong’ - Kathy
• ‘We kept things from you, lied to you. Yes in many ways we fooled you… but we sheltered you during those years‘ - Miss Emily
• ‘We’re modelled from trash‘ - Ruth
• ‘There was no doubt she was the leader‘ - Kathy about Ruth
• ‘Tommy and I were made for each other‘ - Ruth
• ‘It should have been you two’ - Ruth
• ‘The world didn’t’ want to be reminded of how the donation programme really worked’ - Miss Emily
• ‘The memories I value most, I don’t see them fading’ - Kathy
• ‘I lost Ruth then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them’ - Kathy
• ‘It’s not what people do out there in normal life‘ - Kathy to Ruth
• ‘I still see things that remind me of Hailsham‘ - Kathy
• ‘We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls’ - Miss Emily
• ‘Raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking‘ - Tommy’s tantrum after learning of deferrals
• ’It’s not just me, Sweety, Kathy here finds your animals a complete hoot’ - Ruth to Tommy
• ‘Look Tom y you’ve got to understand’ Ruth went on. ‘If Kathy and I have a good laugh about you, it doesn’t really matter. Because that’s just us. But please, let’s not bring everyone else in on it‘ - Ruth to Tommy
• ‘I’m not even asking you to forgive me about that. God I’ve said all this in my head so many times. I can’t believe I’m really doinng it. It should have been you two’ - Ruth