After All, What Can We Ever Gain

And I'm A Hailsham Student - Which Is Enough By Itself Sometimes To Get People's Backs Up.

Perhaps There Are Those Who Are Able To Go About Their Lives Unfettered By Such Concerns. But For Those Like Us, Our Fate Is To Face The World As Orphans, Chasing Through Long Years The Shadows Of Vanished Parents. There Is Nothing For It But To Try And See Through Our Missions To The End, As Best We Can, For Until We Do So, We Will Be Permitted No Calm.

There Are Things I Am More Interested In Than The Clone Thing. How Are They Trying To Find Their Place In The World And Make Sense Of Their Lives? To What Extent Can They Transcend Their Fate? As Time Starts To Run Out, What Are The Things That Really Matter?

What I Wished More Than Anything Was That The Thing Hadn't Happened At All, And I Thought That By Not Mentioning It I'd Be Doing Everyone Else A Favor.

There's Still A Part Of Me That Thinks I Have To Write A Really Good Novel. I'm Not Trying To Say I'm Not Happy With The Novels I've Written In The Past. But It Always Feels To Me Like There's Another One That I Have To Write That Will Really Say What I Want To Say, And Really Paint This World That I Can See Hazily In My Head.