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21 " Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? "
― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)
22 " I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction "
23 " If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! "
24 " Today is declared an unscheduled holiday. "
25 " ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going "
26 " He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt. "
27 " Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo. "
28 " You may lie. "
29 " I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now. "
30 " It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless. "
31 " What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "
32 " He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. "
33 " There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future. "
34 " He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself "
35 " It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. "
36 " The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books. "
37 " Memories are forever. "
38 " But there was nothing left to do but continue "
39 " When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time. "
40 " The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. "