"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."
fiction | 274 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.
We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told.
If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
I can see, now, how important it was to me to have at least some explanation, even if I didn't quite understand it.
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save.
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world.
We didn't have to look into your souls, we had to see if you had souls at all.





