Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

And anyway, if I’d never started choosing, how would I ever have got close again to Ruth and Tommy after all those years?

If you think about it, being dependent on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures—that’s bound to do things to your relationships.

We hadn’t been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.

and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.

“I’m the one to help you. That’s why I came and found you again.”