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121 " Well...," Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one? "
― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)
122 " And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams. "
― Lois Lowry , Gossamer
123 " That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most. "
― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)
124 " To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words. "
― Lois Lowry , Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
125 " Thank you for your childhood. "
126 " always busy because of interesting books "
127 " There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. "
128 " Didn't life consist of the things you did each day? "
129 " A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. "
130 " Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet. "
131 " Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR. "
132 " You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial. "
133 " Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. "
134 " It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility. "
135 " She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health-" For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, "- and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But I hope you starve. "
― Lois Lowry , Son (The Giver, #4)
136 " The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power. "
137 " The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn’t gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way. "
138 " Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name. "
139 " He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves. "
140 " She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son. "