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We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

There would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering,

this talk will be a private one with Jonas.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

I said it because it's true. It's the way

The long neck that extended from his stiff collar.

His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

they lived happily ever after,

He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.

But there was nothing left to do but continue

Our gifts are our weaponry,

Pretending doesn't keep you safe.

Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

Cooking's a bother.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

How could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?

To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.

Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We thank you for your childhood.

I see all of them. All the colors.

The history of Denmark has much to teach us all.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

The God of Thunder has

Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still.

Ravaged all,
Bogo tabal
Timore toron
Totoo now gone ...

Jonas was careful about language.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

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

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

Precision of language, Jonah.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

There are German soldiers on every corner.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

his school lessons had been unusually

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow.

Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story.

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.

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.

Ou have more than you know. And people will want what you have.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

always busy because of interesting books

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.

Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke.

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

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

They sat silently for a moment.

Fear dims when you learn things" -Alys

The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.

I like being right smack in the middle.

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.

Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered.

Memories are forever~ The Giver

Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.

Call me The Giver," he told Jonas.

Hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind

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.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed,

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

she said, "thank you for your childhood.