Chapter 7 Quotes (Never): Flashcards
(13 cards)
“I can’t help feeling a sort of glow” / “but they were more serious, and in some ways darker”
“I began instead, more and more, to ask questions, if not out loud, at least within myself”
“It’s just as well the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified. You get terrible accidents”
“It’s even possible I began to realise, right back then, the nature of her worries and frustrations” / “I noticed all these things without knowing what on earth to make of them”
“But the rain kept going” / “she looked like a crouching animal waiting to pounce” / “I remember actually convincing myself that there was nothing unusual in all this”
“I can’t listen to you anymore and keep silent” / “it’s been allowed to go on, and it’s not right” / “You’ve been told and not told” / “none of you really understand”
“Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old […] you’ll start to donate your vital organs”
“That’s what each of you was created to do” / “you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you”
“it feels like I always knew about donations in some vague way, even as early as six or seven” / “it was like we’d heard everything somewhere before”
“soft red bits peeping up from underneath” / “it can unzip” / “it can all unzip like a bag opening up” / “Bending it at all’s really dangerous”
“I still feel ashamed that I didn’t tell him then” / “but at that moment I just couldn’t tell him”
“the idea of things ‘unzipping’ carried over from Tommy’s elbow to become a running joke among us about the donations”
“We’d been taught to think about each other” / “we never considered anything from her viewpoint, and it never occurred to us to say anything to support her”
