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Never Let Me Go
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"Never Let Me Go" Quotes

A group of students at a seemingly idyllic boarding school discover a dark truth about their purpose in Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go."

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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.

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memorynostalgialoss

We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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mortalitylifeacceptance

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told.

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truthignoranceeducation

If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

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identityfuturetruth

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold on to each other, holding as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much.

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lovelossfate

It had never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

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friendshipchangelife

I can see, now, how important it was to me to have at least some explanation, even if I didn't quite understand it.

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understandingtruthidentity

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save.

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humanitypurposeequality

You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world.

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acceptancelifefate

We didn't have to look into your souls, we had to see if you had souls at all.

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