Quotes from bookNever Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize , for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.
“What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 30
“And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 3
“Ruth insisted – that she really was afraid of us.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 34
“It's nothing to do with you anyway.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 11
“The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 41
“Tommy's got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 8
“Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 4
“It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 34
“She said we weren't being taught enough.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 29
“My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 3
“I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 25
“Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 21, p. 248
