Never let me go quotations

• quotes about the boat trip

  'do we get out? no lets not get out. dont move, dont move' - ruth - repetition'

  
  

  'I was going to... then I got a bit of bleeding and couldn't go anymore' - Tommy - suggest the physical mainpalto of cloys prohibiting them from freedom somewhat

  
  

  
  

  ' I wasn't rwallt thinking about rite. ,my heart ahad done a little leap, because in a single stoke, with that little laugh of agreement, if felt as though Tommy and I had come close together again after all the years'

  
  

  'while I soot there trying to depciher the person handwriting I was suddenly conscious of ruth and Tommy standing behind me, not talking, waiting almost like chilsdten to be told which way to go' Kathy - suggests inoovnce of clones while also establishes therir lack of caring experiences causing them to be dumb somewhat.

  
  

  'we entered the woofs, and though it was Perry easy walking, I noticed ruths treating coming less and less easily. Tommy, by content ,didn't seem to be experience any fdiculti. thoughtcrimes there was a hint of lip in his gait' - Kathy - shows physical pain of the clones and the effects of control

  
  

  'when ruth saw (barbed wire0 she came to an abrupt halt... you didn't she we had to get past barbed wire!' - Kathy/ruth - ruth bout fo her comfort zone - suggests rusts fear of q confined world

  
  

  ';Tommy seems to nice for the first time just how frail she was' - Kathy

  
  

  'with use there to support, she seems to lose her fear of the fence ' - kahrty - shows imorotancxe of keepognj toghtehe to remove fear

  
  

  'ghostly dead trunks poking out to eh soil, most of them broke off only a few fee too, and beyond the death trunks,derad drunks... was the boat, sitting beached in the marches under the weak sun' - Kathy - Gothic imagery reflects the impending doom of the clones

  
  

  'its beautiful ' - ruth - cotnrating with Kathy's negative imagery , while also showing the clone innocence of believing such a thing to be fond odf.

  
  

  'we gezzed at th beach boat. I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the tiumnber frames on the little cabin were crumbling away. it had once been panned a sly blue, but now almost lolled whit Rudner the sky - imagery from kathy - suggest the crumbling innocence and childhood wonder of the clone - time is running out.

  
  

  '' I always see hailsma being like this now. no logic to it. in fact, this is pretty close to the pcoitue in my head. except theres no boat, of course'- Kathy - shows her imagination fo imaging hiaksham as a dying light of her life

  
  

  ruths dream of hailsham 'rubbish floating by under my window, empty drinks, cartons, everything. but there wasn't nay sense of panic or anything like that. it was nice and tranqwuo, just like it is here. I knew I wasn tin any danger, that it was only like this because It had closed down - ruth /accepting of her fate

  
  

  'Christ completed during her second donation' - Tommy

  'I think it happens much more than they ever tell us' - ruth

  suggests ahislahm keeps tragedy of donations a scet to coerce them

  
  

  rodney was not 'too bad about' Chrissie death. 'He thought Chrissie woilkdnt have minded too much' - Tommy. reflects accpetantance and fatalism of the clones to be complete with death - suggests pwer of control

  
  

  'why would he know!... how could he possibly know what Chrissie would have felt!' - ruth angry at tom - perhaps indicative of her own realisation of her selfishness by presuming she knew who and what Kathy was

  
  

  'it cant be good' Tommy said. 'completing at the second donation. csnt be good' - shows he still has something to live for.

  
  

  ' I want much of a good cabrers... I'm a pretty good donator, but I was a loudy carer' - Tommy ./ idnasicting his fatalism - taking pride in his donations lol

  
  

  'its ewhat were supposed to be doping, isn't it' - ruth complicit in her donation city

  
  

  
  

  'Ruths voice was hardly audible,,, 'it just something I once dreamed about' ruth - imagery of her voice being iunauable.- being squashed by

  
  

  
  

  after Kathy brings up madame with ruth, she 'saw something like a triump flash across her face. you see it in films sometimes, when ones person pointg a gun at another person , and the ones with the guns making the other one do all kings of things... promises all kind of vengeance' - anaglidy reflects Ruth's realisation of the past

  
  

  'I kept you and Tommy apart' her voice had dropped again, almost to a whisper. 'that twas the wort thing I did'- ruth kenos the mistakes '- whisper' shows pain and fear when honeying this

  
  

  'you've got to try and get a deferall.,.. a real chance' - rites desperation to make amends

  
  

  
  

  'ruth. Its okay. im going to become Tommys carer .... t think she did understand' - ruth receive closures for her life.
• the cottages being 'isolated'

  shows the isolation the clones ahevfrom the rest of the world.
• Hailsham 'rising on all sides'


  implies cantor;
• the countryside is idyllic

  
  

  ' a car was a rarity'


  foreshadows the clones lack of idneiety defined by their isolated existence.
• Hasilanm cotnaintg

  
  

  'fields' 'flowered and shrubs

  
  

  contest with the stories of the 'woods; that 'played on (the childrens) minds'

  
  

  to explore how the subtitles of the manipulation impacted the children h


  denoting the encirowmnt was accepting and comforting.
• Kathy akcnloegs that her preppies time to Hailsham are gradually 'fraying' a


  suggesting she is losing a sense of indiety because of her losing connection with Hailsham over time
• Kathy analogised the closing of Hailsham with someone

  
  

  'snapping the balloon seeing just where they were entwined. once that append, there'd be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other anymore'


  suggesting that perhaps the desire to prolongs Hailsham existences emanates form a mental imepcatve to prevent Ita disappearances form the recesses and clutches of memory.
• Kathy's conversation with Laura was a 'way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both our memories
• Kahtys reunion with Laura is where they 'hugged, quite spontanoeusl '


  their embrace serving as a micormsim of the metahpricla sense of harmony achieved through their mutual reminisces
• if the (regular humans ) didn't know where the organs came from. they didn't ask questions
• The great escape


  the children would replay 'the moment where the American Jumps over the fence'

  
  

  intercutlairty, ironic refenrce, suggests their entrapment.
• Quotes from chapter 5

  'when ruth and I discussed (the secret guard)....she claimed it bad teen a mater of two or three weeks.but that was almost certainly wrong. she was probably embarrassed about it and so the whole thing had shrunk in her memory. my guess it that it went on for 9 months, a year even'

  
  

  'room 5 was the smallest room... maybe I;m exaggerating, but my memory was that for a whole class to fir in that room, student literally had to pile onto of each other

  
  

  the pencil case 'was shiny, like. a police shoe, a deep tan colour with cicrular red dots drifting all over it'

  
  

  '(ruth) was claiming the pencil case was a gift from miss Geraldine'

  
  

  'officially, guardians weren't supposed to show favouritism ,but there were little displays for affection all the time within certain parameters'

  
  

  'I was never the sort of kid who brooded over things for hours on end.. I;gve got that way a bit these days but what's the work I do and the long hour s of quieten when im driving across this empty fields'

  
  

  'I did go around in a bit of a trance. I'd drift off into covnevrstaions, whose lessons went by wuioth me not know what was going on. I was determined rusth shouldn't get away with this timewm four for a long while I wasnt doing anything constructive about ti, just playing fantastic scenes in my head where I'd expose her and force her to admit she made it up'

  
  

  ' a gorgeous itlem like that wouldn't have gone unnoticed'

  
  

  
  

  'I had the outlines of plan.... it corrected to me it want actually necessary to carry out all the steps provided I was right about the pencil case coming for the sale, all I had to do was bluff'

  
  

  'there was a fog and drizzle that day... the rain suddenly got heavier'

  
  

  'for all my fantasies of the pas tmotnh. o'd never actually considered what it would be life in a real situation like the one that unfolded at that moment'

  
  

  'all this effort, all this panning, just to upset my dearest friend'

  
  

  'so what of she fibbed a little about her pencil case? didn't we all dream from time to time about one guardian or other bending the rules and doing something special for us? a spontaneous hug ,a secrect letter, a gift?'

  
  

  
  

  'then after a few seconds of silence, ruth walked off into the rain
• we alll know it. we're muddled from trash, junkies, prostitues, winos, tramps, convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren't psychos. thats what we come from.. we all know, so hwy dont; we say it?' - ruth


  the pessimistic nature of the quite and the list of negative characters shows there is really no hope for the clones.
• the guardians, had, throughout all our years at hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us' - Kathy, pg 81

  deception
• well, they told us a few things obviously, but' - she gave a shrug - 'its not something we know much about . we never talked about out really" - ruth, pg 152


  deception.
• whatever else, we at least saw to it that all of you in our care, you grew up in wondering surroinding.s and we saw to it too, after you left us, you were kept away from the worst of those horrors. we were able to do that much for you at least' - miss Emily, pg 255

  deception.
• my name is Kathy H. I'm thirty one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years' - Kathy, pg 1


  - short sentence shows the hard fact of her idneiety

  - the unfamiliar context of 'carer' is introduced as a job, with no explanation., showing how this ia an identity that audiences are expected to know and identify
• our models were an irrelevance, a technical necessity for bringing us into the world nothing more than that. it was up to use to make of our loves what we could' - Kathy pg 138


  - the man clause is elaborate, multi syllabled 'irrelevance' and 'tenchicanl necessity' shows more arduous some donors find the concept of searching for morellos

  - monosymballing supporting class shows the determination Kathy dikspalus

  - however the supporting clause is lon and cut, not easy floowgg of the tone, - this mimics and confusion the donors face
• after all, its what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?' - Ruth, pg 223


  - rhetorical question shows irony of the higher ups controlling what the donors do

  - 'supposed' complies that laity is breaking the rule of some sort
• We were just talking about what it would feel lie if we became acts.. what sort of life it would be;' - Peter


  Peter, one of the boys in the group, reveals hs dreams for the future when talking to his friends, the quote highlights that the hailsham pupils are naive and oblivious to their purpose on the planet.
• but it is Kathy, you're really one of us, so it is always your business... you'r rightist haunts been good'


  ruth is accepting of Kathy's opinion unlike many other characters, she does not dismiss Kathy who she considers her closest friend.
• Tommy, sweetie dint make a fool of yourself fin front of your friend, do it to me, thats alright. but in front of your dear Kathy' - 191, Ruth


  ruth is patronising and very passive aggressive when in a relationship with Tommy. she is very controlling and manipulate of Tommy and Kathy as well
• I had thus notion there were two quite separate Ruth's' - Kathy , page 127


  Kathy feeling that ruth's personality often changes to the extremes.
• tommy's been telling me about his big theory. he says he's already told you. ages ago. but now, very kindly, he'a allowing me to share in it too' - Ruth, 191

  ruth's not keen in playing second fiddle. there is a strong hint of sarcasm in her tone of voice
• the sales were something else, which I'll come to later' pg 16


  shows structure of the novel, through direct address
• I should explain a bit about the exchanges we had at hailsham' pg 15

  purpose - the narrator uses the readers prescribe to structure their writing through the direct address
• I know careerism working now, who are just as good and don't get half the credit. if you've one of them, I can understand how you might get resentful' - Kathy, pg 3

  purpose - demonstrates widespread nature of cloning and organ donation , through the direct address
• quotes about narrative style

  'I'm not making any big claims for myself' (3)

  
  

  'I was generally angry, because I though he was lying for me, just when I deserved to be taken into his confidence... I felt betrayed, and didn't care how he felt' (24)

  
  

  'if someone mentions the cottages today, I think fo easy going days drfting in an out of each others rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into there evening

  
  

  'you and Tommy are supposed to be a couple. that means you look out for him'

  
  

  'even in the little adverts for videos or whatever tucked away to the side, I checked each model's face before moving on'

  
  

  ' I hadn't minded at all. I felt comforted protected almost. I did tell him eventually, bit that wasnt until a few months later when we went on our Norfolk trip'

  
  

  'the basic idea behind the possible theory was simple.. since each of us was copied at some point from a normal erposn, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life. this meant, at least in their, you'd be able to find the person you were modelled from' - 137

  
  

  'one big idea behind finding our model was that when you didn't, you'd glimpse your future '- 137

  
  

  '...If was headed that way on one of my walks...I'd find myselfs going through the low wooden gate and along the overgrown path past the gravestones' 190

  
  

  'your spend hour after hour , on your own, driving across the country... no one to talk to'... (203)
• quotes about humanity

  '..I'd day the rule about not discussing donations openly was still there, strong as ever' (83)

  
  

  'out there p[eople were even killing each other over whom and sex with whom. at the reason it meant to much.. was because people out there were different from us students. they could have babies from sex'

  
  

  'the first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, its a cold moment' (36)

  
  

  'she said we weren't being taught enough.. what she was talking about was... about us.. what's going to happen to us one day. donations and all that' (29)

  
  

  'she'd known alto off students, she said who'd for a long time found it very difficult to be creative, painting, drawing, poetry, none of it going right for years. then one day he'd turned a corner and blossomed. it was quite possible Tommy was one of these' (27)

  
  

  'I heard about Chrissie. I heard she completed after her second donation' 221

  
  

  'maybe I was wanting that feeling again, of me and Tommy being brought close together' 224

  
  

  'then that feeling would come fight to the fore and I'd have to put my hand over his mouth. whenever he said things like that, just so we could go on lying there in peace (235)

  
  

  
  

  'what I do remember is the strong mix of emotions that englushed me at that moment' (235)

  
  

  ''... she saw and decided in a second what we were, because you could see her stiffen - as if a pair of large spiders was set to crawl towards her' (243)

  
  

  '... your art will reveal your inner elves... your art will display your souls!' (248)
• quotes about hope and belief

  'it so stupid, this whole secret guard thing. how can they still believe in something like that? it's like they're still in the infants' 54

  
  

  'it's just another of ruth's made up things, that's all' (55)

  
  

  'and yet, all the time, I think we must have had n idea of how precarious the foundations of our fantasy were, because we always avoided any confrontation' (51)

  
  

  'what's going to happen to use one day. donations and all that' (29)

  
  

  'you seem much more happier these days Tommy. things seem to be going much better for you' (23)

  
  

  'looking back now, I can see why the changes were so import to us. for a start, they were our only means, aside form the sales - of building up a collection of personal possessions' (16)

  
  

  'none of you will go america, none of you will be film stars' (80) - Lucy

  
  

  'your lives are set out for you. you'll become adults then before your'e old before your even middle aged you'll start to donate your vital organs. that's what each of you was created to do' (80)
• quotes focusing on truth

  ;why train us , encourage us, make us produce all of that? if we're just going to give donations anyway, and then die' 248

  
  

  'and for a long time people preferred to believe these organs came from nowhere, or that most that they grew in a kind of vacuum' (257), Emily

  
  

  'However uncomfortable people were about your existence their overwhelming concern was their own children... did not die of cancer; 258

  
  

  'they didn't want to think about you students, or the conditions you were brought up in'

  
  

  'your life now mush run the course it that's been set'

  
  

  'she (miss Lucy) though that you students had to be made more aware. more aware of what lay ahead of you, who you were, what you were. she believed you should have been given as a full picture as possible' (262)

  
  

  'when I watched you dancing that day I saw something els.e I saw a new world coming rapidly. more scientific, more efficient uses. more curses for old sickness. very good.but a harsh. cruel world' - madame

  
  

  'he tried to shake me off, but o kept holding on, until he stopped shouting, and I felt the right go out of him' Kathy 269

  
  

  ' I was whtinkong maybe the reason you get like that was because at some level you always knew' - 280, Kathy

  
  

  'we'd been told and told' - 81,

  
  

  '.. any place beyond hailsham was like. fanatays land.. we only had the hardiest of notions of the worldputsidfe and about what was and wasn't possible there' - 66
• Quotes focusing around memory


  'it's got something to do with what Miss lacy said to you. about us, about how one day we'll start making donations. I don't know why, but 'I've had this feeling for some time its all linked, though I can't figure out how' - pg 31

  
  

  'the gallery Tommy and I were discussing was something we'd all of us grown up with. everyone talked about it as though it existed, though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did' 31

  
  

  'im sure it now. Madame's scared of us' (33)

  
  

  'if for us the gallery remained in a hazy realm, what was solid enoihggh fact was madam.es turning up... to select from our best work'

  
  

  'look there are all kinds of things that you don't understand ... things about hailsham, about your place in the wider world' 106

  
  

  'because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we once might have though' - Kathy, pg 118

  
  

  'I had this notion that there were these two quite separate Ruths. there was one ruth who was always trying to impress the veterans and one I could absolutely trust... but when I think of it now I can see things more from ruth's viewpoint' - Kathy, 127

  
  

  ''your art will reveal your inner selves... your art will display your souls!' - Madame, pg 248

  
  

  'I never apprreiacted in those days the sheer effort ruth was making to move one to grow up and leave hailsham behind' pg 128

  
  

  'but I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for 4th next couple of hours I;ll only have the roads, the big grey sky, and may daydreams for company' (204)
• quotes on the motif of water imagery

  the pond is 'a good place for a discreet conversation' (pg 21)

  
  

  the pond 'had a tranquil atmosphere' pg 25

  
  

  Norfol as seen as a place 'jutting into the sea'

  
  

  the place were the possible works has an art gallery with 'sea themes'

  
  

  when discussing the woman another time, one character is temrpaorily distracted, 'pointing something out... in the sea'

  
  

  Tommy tulles ruth that after he scored a goal he always 'imagined himself splashing through water' and that it 'it felt really good'

  
  

  ruth has a foreboding dream in which hailsham, the characters school is compeptely flooded, 'like a giant lake'. while at first not appearing a bad dream, ruth then states 'it was only like that because it (hailsham) closed down' pg 22

  
  

  negative imagery surrounds this dream , such as 'rubbish floating by' and the fact that ruth is 'stuck looking out the window