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Messenger (The Giver, #3) QUOTES

Messenger (The Giver, #3) QUOTES

1 " ...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

2 " It's hard to leave the only place you've known. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

3 " Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

4 " To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

5 " He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

6 " It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . . "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

7 " Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

8 " ..you have more than you know. And people will want what you have. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

9 " That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

10 " 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. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

11 " She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

12 " Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were welcomed. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

13 " When would he ever learn to stop saying “Look” to a man who had no eyes? "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

14 " All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. His brain and spirit became part of the earth. He rose. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

15 " I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

16 " And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

17 " now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

18 " But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

19 " there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

20 " That’s why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)