Top 50 Quotes You Need for Your Essay from Never Let Me Go

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#11: And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field, for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.

• Techniques: Repetition, long sentence, asyndeton, juxtaposition
• Characters: Tommy, Kathy H.
• Chapter 22

#12: If you think about it, being dependent on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures – that’s bound to do things to your relationships.

• 技术：隐喻，象征主义
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 2

#13: The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it’s a cold moment. It’s like walking past a mirror you’ve walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

• Techniques: Cultural reference (to Lacan’s mirror stage), metaphor, stream of consciousness
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 3

#14: Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.

• Techniques: Motif, contrast
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 10

#15: It’s an object, like a brooch or a ring, and especially now Ruth has gone, it’s become one of my most precious possessions.

• Techniques: Objectification, simile
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Ruth
• Chapter 6

#16: I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

• 技术：象征意义，主题，异教，谓词
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 10

＃17：也许我和汤米（Tommy）正在特别努力彼此友善，但似乎几乎无忧无虑地滑倒了。

• 技术：隐喻，零散的短语
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 23

What is Human

#18: Well… The thing is, it might sound strange. It did to me at first. What she said was that if I didn’t want to be creative, if I really didn’t feel like it, that was perfectly all right. Nothing wrong with it, she said.

• 技术：对比语言，口语语气
• Characters: Tommy, Kathy H.
• Chapter 2

#19: But now, in that gallery, the woman was too close, much closer than we’d ever really wanted. And the more we heard and looked at her, the less she seemed like Ruth.

• 技术：同型叙述，比喻
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Ruth
• Chapter 14

＃20：他想要的不仅是听到有关Hailsham的消息，而且还要记住Hailsham，就像是他自己的童年一样。He knew he was close to completing and so that’s what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they’d really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

• 技术：重复，异教，辅音，图像
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 1

#21: I froze in shock. Then within a second or two, I began to feel a new kind of alarm, because I could see there was something strange about the situation. The door was almost half open… but Madame hadn’t nearly come up to the threshold. She was out in the corridor, standing very still… And the odd thing was she was crying. It might even have been one of her sobs that had come through the song to jerk me out of me dream.

• Techniques: Foreshadowing, metaphor, motif
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Madame
• Chapter 6

#22: 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 ever see them fading.

• Techniques: Juxtaposition, stream of consciousness
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 23

#23: We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

• Techniques: Biblical reference, epistrophe, first-person plural
• 角色：艾米丽小姐，凯西·H。
• Chapter 22

＃24：即使它足够温暖，您也不想在田野上这样做，因为几乎可以肯定的是，您之后会发现您会从众议院观看经过双筒望远镜的观众。换句话说，尽管对性的所有话题都很美丽，但如果监护人抓住了我们，我们会给我们带来独特的印象。

• Techniques: Metaphor, contrast
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 8

#25: We all know it. We’re modeled fromtrash。瘾君子，妓女，Winos，流浪汉。只要他们不是心理医生，也许是罪犯。那就是我们的来源。我们都知道，那我们为什么不说呢？

• Techniques: First-person plural, rhetorical question, asyndeton, metonym
• 角色：露丝（演讲者），凯西·H。

#26: It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task.

• 技术：隐喻，图像，转词
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 14

#27: What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, ‘Never Let Me Go’.

• Techniques: Motif, stream of consciousness
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 5

#28: The woods played on our imaginations the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep. You almost thought then you could hear the wind rustling the branches, and talking about it seemed only to make things worse.

• Techniques: Imagery, second-person
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 5

#29: Ruth had been right: Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders.

• Techniques: Simile
• Characters: Ruth, Madame, Kathy. H
• Chapter 3

# 30:也许,第四捐赠后,即使you’ve technically completed, you’re still conscious in some sort of way; how then you find there are more donations, plenty of them, on the other side of that line; how there are no more recovery centres, no carers, no friends; how there’s nothing to do except watch your remaining donations until they switch you off.

• Techniques: Euphemism, repetition
• Characters: Tommy, Kathy H.
• Chapter 23

现状

#31: But then there came a point when I just stopped resisting. It had to do with this particular donor I had once, in my third year as a carer; it was his reaction when I mentioned I was from Hailsham.

• Techniques: Foreshadowing
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 1

#32: Afterwards, the others thought he’d meant to do it, but I was pretty sure it was unintentional. His arms were still flailing about, and he wasn’t to know I was about to put out my hand. Anyway, as he threw up his arm, he knocked my hand aside and hit the side of my face.

• Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, symbolism
• Characters: Tommy
• Chapter 1

#33: The gallery Tommy and I were discussing was something we’d all of us grown up with. Everyone talked about it as though it existed, though in truth none of us knew for sure that it did.

• Techniques: Contrast, foreshadowing
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 3

#34: It’s not good that I smoked. It wasn’t good for me so I stopped it. But what you must understand is that for you, all of you, it’s much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me. You’ve been told about it. You’re students. You’re…special。

• 技术：预示，委婉语，三角
• 角色：露西小姐
• Chapter 6

#35: The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. But I’m not.

• 技术：重复，零散的句子，隐喻
• 角色：露西小姐
• Chapter 7

# 36:幻想从未除此之外,我没有let it – and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

• Techniques: Fragmented sentences, imagery
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 23

#37: The point about Chrissie—and this applied to a lot of the veterans—was that for all her slightly patronizing manner towards us when we’d first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham. It took me a long time to realize this.

• Techniques: Parataxis, foreshadowing
• Characters: Chrissie, Kathy H.
• Chapter 12

＃38：你与众不同。我记得。您从不对自己的收藏感到尴尬，并且保留了它。我希望我也能做到这一点。

• Techniques: Short truncated sentences, regretful and sentimental tone
• 角色：露丝（演讲者），凯西·H。

#39: Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

• Techniques: Dehumanisation, rhetorical question
• Characters: Madame, Kathy H.
• Chapter 11

＃40：那是我第一次理解，真正理解的时候，我们过得很幸运 - 汤米，露丝，我，我们所有人。

• Techniques: Foreshadowing, asyndeton
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 1

#41: Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do. You’re not like the actors you watch on your videos, you’re not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.

• Techniques: Second-person, fragmented sentences, anaphora
• 角色：露西小姐
• Chapter 8

＃42：我们不明白您如何获得这样的能力。。。。我在想也许你曾经这样得到这样的原因是因为在某种程度上你总是knew。

• Techniques: Euphemism
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 22

# 43:我看到一个新的世界迅速。更有知识的ific, 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.

• 技术：对比度，图像，主题
• Characters: Madame, Kathy H.
• Chapter 22

＃44：那天，汤米和我在诺福克海岸的一个小镇上发现了我的那片失落的磁带的副本，我们不仅认为这很有趣。我们俩都感到深处的拖船，有些古老的愿望再次相信曾经靠近我们心的事物

• 技术：图案，隐喻，第一人称复数，juxaposition
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 6

#45: By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn’t known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.

• Techniques: Plain tone
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 6

#46: she holds this baby very close to her and walks around singing: “Baby, never let me go . . .” partly because she’s so happy, but also because she’s so afraid something will happen, that the baby will get ill or be taken away from her.

• Techniques: Imagery, contrast
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 6

#47: We certainly didn’t think much about our lives beyond the Cottages, or about who ran them, or how they fitted into the larger world.

• Techniques: Euphemism, tricolon
• 角色：凯西H.
• Chapter 10

＃48：您知道，我们能够给您一些东西，即使现在没有人会从您那里拿走的东西，我们主要能够通过庇护您来做到这一点。

• Techniques: Juxtaposition, fragmented language
• 角色：艾米丽小姐，凯西·H。
• Chapter 22

#49: You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

• 技术：第二人称，高光感，令人生畏的语气
• 角色：露西小姐
• Chapter 7

＃50：我们一直在思考延期，关于画廊的理论，所有这些都持续了很长时间 - 现在，突然之间，我们在这里。绝对有点可怕。

• Techniques: Parataxis, plain tone
• 角色：凯西H.，，，，Tommy
• Chapter 20