Never Let Me Go — Vocabulary
Kazuo Ishiguro
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No one answered, and we carried on over to the pavilion, not saying anything more about what had happened.†p.36.1alternate pages25 more

But as Mr. Frank's class drew to an end, we could see Madame, directly below in the courtyard, parking her car.†p.34.9alternate pages5 more

Many veterans, too, seemed affected by the flurry of departures, and maybe as a direct result, there was a fresh spate of rumours of the sort Chrissie and Rodney had spoken about in Norfolk.†p.185.5alternate pages5 more

I never heard Ruth actually lie to veterans; it was more to do with not denying certain things, implying others.†p.145.6alternate pages8 more

Miss Emily used to give a lot of the sex lectures herself, and I remember once, she brought in a life-size skeleton from the biology class to demonstrate how it was done.†p.83.7alternate pages6 more

I was genuinely angry, because I thought he was lying to me, just when I deserved to be taken into his confidence.†p.24.1alternate pages6 more

At least, though, I knew it was on Tommy's mind after that, and I was glad he'd at least confided in me that far.†p.279.9alternate pages5 more

At first these responses caused disappointment; maybe people were resentful, even, like he'd let them down.†p.21.5alternate pages7 more

You have to remember that until that point we'd never been beyond the grounds of Hailsham, and we were just bewildered.†p.118.8alternate pages6 more

We'd become preoccupied with T-shirts, with decorating around our beds, with personalising our desks.†p.38.7alternate pages5 more

I suppose it was because even at that age—we were nine or ten—we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory.†p.69.4alternate pages3 more

Anyway, once you came out to the pond, you'd find a tranquil atmosphere waiting, with ducks and bulrushes and pond-weed.†p.25.3alternate pages4 more

There were times when I wanted badly to tell her, when I wanted us to reminisce about Hailsham with the tape playing in the background.†p.184.8alternate pages4 more

Tommy and I discussed the tokens controversy a few years ago, and we couldn't at first agree when it had happened.†p.38.3alternate pages3 more

Chrissie eagerly took up the subject and soon both veterans were coming out with anecdotes about all the hilarious things Martin had got up to.†p.149.9alternate pages3 more

Until this point I'd been so engrossed in Tommy's story, I'd forgotten my reason for having this talk with him.†p.109.6alternate pages3 more

But now it was okay, almost required, every now and then, to make some jokey allusion to these things that lay in front of us.†p.84.9alternate pages2 more

None of us, incidentally, was particularly bothered about it; in fact, I remember some people being pleased we could have sex without worrying about all of that—though proper sex was still some way off for most of us at that stage.†p.73.2alternate pages4 more

The boys were going through a phase of "enjoying" rounders in order to flirt with us, so there were over thirty of us that afternoon.p.79.3alternate pages4 more

This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong; but my memory of it is that my approaching Tommy that afternoon was part of a phase I was going through around that time—something to do with compulsively setting myself challenges—and I'd more or less forgotten all about it when Tommy stopped me a few days later.p.13.1alternate pages4 more