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My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
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 see them ever fading.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
She said we weren't being taught enough.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.
Never Let Me Go (2005)
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.
Never Let Me Go (2005)