Never Let Me Go Quotes:

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

- Elvis Presley

topic: Marriage, Sweet, Never Let Me Go, Tender Love

I've actually found that most of my jobs have been in sci-fi. I realized it because sci-fi has the biggest fan following. Every time I do a play in London all these sci-fi fans come out. They ask me to sign things from all these little projects that I did. I hadn't even made the connection. It doesn't always have a spaceship and guns; sci-fi has been projected on in someway. I did Never Let Me Go, which is sort of Star Trek-y. It's about the future and training humans. It's sci-fi too. It's such a broad umbrella.

- Lydia Wilson

topic: Gun, Training, Never Let Me Go, Let Me Go

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

- Jay Baruchel

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

topic: Vanity, Narcissism, Never Let Me Go

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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Apr 30, 2014

topic: Memories, Fading, Never Let Me Go, Memories Fade, You Let Me Go

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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.74, Faber & Faber

topic: Lying, Needs, Never Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Decent Life

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.233, Faber & Faber

topic: Regret, Never Let Me Go, Poor

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.3, Faber & Faber

topic: Never Let Me Go, Donors, Expected

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 22, 2012

topic: Love, Letting Go, Strong, Let Me Go, Never Let Me Go

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.243, Faber & Faber

topic: People, Feelings, World, Let Me Go, Never Let Me Go

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

- John Denver

source: Song: Leaving On a Jet Plane

topic: Romantic, Kissing, Waiting, Wait For Me, Never Let Me Go

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Feb 13, 2017

topic: Carpe Diem, People, Enough Time, Never Let Me Go, You Let Me Go

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Running, Never Let Me Go

Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.

- Robert M. Hensel

topic: Sweet, Promise, May, Never Let Me Go

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, 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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Girl, Eye, Heart, Cruel World, Never Let Me Go

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 from being swept away into the night.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.189, Faber & Faber

topic: Night, Wind, Clothes, Never Let Me Go, Tugging

If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.108, Faber & Faber

topic: Girl, Running, Boys, Never Let Me Go, Years Together

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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: People, Way, Problem, Never Let Me Go

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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Art, Soul, Prove, Never Let Me Go, You Let Me Go

She always wanted to believe in things.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.196, Faber & Faber

topic: Believe, Wanted, Never Let Me Go

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t 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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.263, Faber & Faber

topic: Car, Tears, Faces, Never Let Me Go, Sobbing

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Heartbroken, Growing Up, Believe, Never Let Me Go, Norfolk

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Eye, Long, Childhood, Never Let Me Go

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Speed, Let Me Go, Never Let Me Go, You Let Me Go

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. 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.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Memories, Night, Childhood, Sleepless Nights, Never Let Me Go

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Book, Character, Views, Let Me Go, Never Let Me Go

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Life, Running, Sometimes, Never Let Me Go

all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.

- John Denver

topic: Goodbye, Song, Hate, Wakes You, Wait For Me

My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Jobs, Play, Ideas, Never Let Me Go

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

topic: Moving, Sleep, Long, Let Me Go, Never Let Me Go