Never Let Me Go Quotes

“... that it wasn't my fault. Okay, I hadn't handled it well. But deep down, it wasn't my fault. That's what made the difference.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Then he said: “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how I think it is with us. It’s a shame, Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“My name is Kathy H.

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

“There was Ruth, lying on her side across my rug, peering at the spines of the cassettes in the low light, and then the Judy Bridgewater tape was in her hands.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Miss Emily’s lecture that day was typical of what I’m talking about. We’d be focusing on sex, and then the other stuff would creep in. I suppose that was all part of how we came to be “told and not told.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“And the reason it meant so much—so much more than, say, dancing or table-tennis—was because the people out there were different from us students: they could have babies from sex.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Then suddenly, with the skeleton in an obscene heap on the desktop, she turned away and began telling us how we had to be careful who we had sex with. Not just because of the diseases, but because, she said, “sex affects emotions in ways you’d never expect.” We had to be extremely careful about having sex in the outside world, especially with people who weren’t students, because out there sex meant all sorts of things.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I remember Laura was demonstrating to me an especially disgusting way of blowing your nose for when you really wanted to put off a boy.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy, and he’d wave, maybe even call.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“NARROW,”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafés were for everyone else.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“In those early months, we’d somehow developed this idea that how well you were settling in at the Cottages—how well you were coping—was somehow reflected by how many books you’d read. It sounds odd, but there you are, it was just something that developed between us, the ones who’d arrived from Hailsham.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“One of the boys asked if the fences around the camps had been electrified, and then someone else had said how strange it must have been, living in a place like that, where you could commit suicide any time you liked just by touching a fence.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“By 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

“when we lost something precious, and we’d looked and looked and still couldn’t find it, then we didn’t have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old, kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“She told Roy that things like pictures, poetry, all that kind of stuff, she said they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“La primera vez que te ves con los ojos de alguien así, sientes mucho frío. Es como si al pasar por delante de un espejo ante el que pasas todos los días de tu vida reparas de pronto en que el cristal te devuelve algo más que de costumbre, algo turbador y extraño.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Nunca me abandones

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“As we got older, we went on talking about the Gallery. If you wanted to praise someone’s work, you’d say: “That’s good enough for the Gallery.” And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we’d go: “Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Yeah,” I said. “Gone to Norfolk.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The reason they go for Tommy’s because he’s a layabout.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Tendréis que reconocer que a veces, es así como funcionan las cosas en este mundo. Las opiniones de la gente, sus sentimientos, un día van en una dirección y otro día en otra”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realize that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you--of how you were brought into this world and why--and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Pentru a nu crește traumatizați, toți copiii trebuie induși în eroare.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“A existat o altă viață pe care aș fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Acum câteva zile vorbeam cu unul dintre donatorii mei, care se plângea de faptul că amintirile - până și cele mai dragi - pălesc surprizăntor de repede. Însă eu nu sunt de acord cu el. Nu cred deloc că amintirile la care țin cel mai mult vor păli vreodată.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go