If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' h...
I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the colour he knew as red.
Fear dims when you learn things.
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.
Danes had on their windows; the entire city had to be completely darkened at night. In a nearby tree, a bird was singing; otherwise it was quiet. It was the last night of September. Go, now, and get i...
But this room’s walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
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...
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
What words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
Villagers
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 k...
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?...
You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden!
Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.
When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.
What did you perceive? The Giver asked. Warmth, Jonas replied
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.