Never Let Me Go Quotes

“Cabia a cada um de nós fazer o máximo da própria vida.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Because whatever the song was really about, in my head, when I was dancing, I had my own version. You see, I imagined it was about this woman who’d been told she couldn’t have babies. But then she’d had one, and she was so pleased, and she was holding it ever so tightly to her breast, really afraid something might separate them, and she’s going baby, baby, never let me go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“And when someone’s asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Make no mistake about it, my child, Marie-Claude is on your side and will always be on your side. Is she afraid of you? We’re all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you all almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times I’d look down at you all from my study window and I’d feel such revulsion . . .”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The pond lay to the south of the house. To get there you went out the back entrance, and down the narrow twisting path, pushing past the overgrown bracken that, in the early autumn, would still be blocking your way. Or if there were no guardians around, you could take a short cut through the rhubarb patch. Anyway, once you came out to the pond, you’d find a tranquil atmosphere waiting, with ducks and bulrushes and pond-weed.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Like you were sad, maybe. And a bit scared.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Mindig az jár a fejemben, hogy van valahol egy folyó, aminek nagyon gyors a sodrása. És ott a vízben az a két ember, és kapaszkodnak egymásba, kapaszkodnak, ahogy csak tudnak, de végül nem bírják tovább. Túlságosan erős az áramlat. El kell engedniük egymást, és elsodródnak egymástól. Úgy érzem, hogy velünk is ez a helyzet. Igazán kár, Kath, mert egész életünkben szerettük egymást. Mégsem maradhatunk együtt örökre.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Because there are times when we human beings wish, from the depths of our souls, for something we know to be beyond anyone's reach.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“And I suppose I looked at him with resignation, with a face that said: ‘Yes, it’s true, what else did you expect?’ And I can recall now, as fresh as anything, Tommy’s own face, the anger receding for the moment, being replaced by an expression almost of wonder, like I was a rare butterfly he’d come across on a fence-post.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The fantasy never got beyond that - I didn't let it - and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“but we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Nevertheless, we all of us, to varying degrees, believed that when you saw the person you were copied from, you’d get some insight into who you were deep down, and maybe too, you’d see something of what your life held in store.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“then, of course, we all knew something I hadn’t known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“the fantasy never got beyond that – I didn’t let it”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I was feeling okay. It was like something that had been hanging over me for a long time had gone, and even if things were still far from sorted, it felt like there was now at least a door open to somewhere better.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. 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”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“we knew and remembered things no one else did.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I think we were reluctant to start any new conversation we’d regret not being able to finish properly. That’s why there was a kind of emptiness to our talk that day.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Then there’s the solitude. You grow up surrounded by crowds of people, that’s all you’ve ever known, and suddenly you’re a carer. You spend hour after hour, on your own, driving across the country, centre to centre, hospital to hospital, sleeping in overnights, no one to talk to about your worries, no one to have a laugh with. Just now and again you run into a student you know—a carer or donor you recognise from the old days—but there’s never much time. You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the travelling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“came into your dormitory, I saw you, by yourself, a little girl, dancing. As you say, eyes closed, far away, a look of yearning. You were dancing so very sympathetically. And the music, the song. There was something in the words. It was full of sadness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Looking back now, it’s funny to think we got so worked up, because usually the Sales were a big disappointment. There’d be nothing remotely special and we’d spend our tokens just renewing stuff that was wearing out or broken with more of the same. But the point was, I suppose, we’d all of us in the past found something at a Sale, something that had become special: a jacket, a watch, a pair of craft scissors never used but kept proudly next to a bed. We’d all found something like that at one time, and so however much we tried to pretend otherwise, we couldn’t ever shake off the old feelings of hope and excitement.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I kept thinking about him, about how I wished I could go back to that time when we were in the field. I wanted to be there for him, to help him feel better.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go