Never Let Me Go Quotations

“For the most part being a carer suited me fine”

suited

“my worry was that it would show somehow, in a kind of lack of intimacy”

intimacy

“we were down to six per dorm”

dorm

“modelled from trash”

modelled

“all along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled”

wire - rubbish

“what else do you think he’d be doing here, he’s a proper carer now”

proper

“waiting for the day they’re told they can stop and become donors”

waiting - become

“it started to dawn on me, I suppose that a lot of things i’d always assumed I had plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act pretty soon or else let them go for ever”

dawn - act

“He tried to shake me off, but I kept holding on”

shake

“Stood together like that, at the top of that field, for what seemed like ages”

field

“Your lives are set out for you”

set out

“you’ll start to donate your vital organs”

vital

“took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls”

souls

“At Hailsham we had to have some form of medical almost every week”

medical

“we are each, clinging to our essay”

clinging

“person you were modelled from”

person

"None of you will go to America. None of you will be film stars"

America

"He'd rather have you backing him than any of the boys" 

R + T = backing

"they reckon this person's a possible. For me."

possible