We’re almost there, Gabriel, he whispered, feeling quite certain without knowing why. I remember this place, Gabe. And it was true. But it was not a grasping of a thin and burdensome recollection; thi...
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?
We thank you for your childhood.
There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always bro...
There are so many good memories, The Giver reminded Jonas. And it was true.
There are German soldiers on every corner.
The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas.
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...
The corner was just ahead.
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.
The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle o...
The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone.
The Giver shrugged. Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and...
Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none. She
Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.
She had seen her son for the first time, in this place, when he was a child of eight or nine. She remembered that day. He ran along the path near the cottage to which she had been assigned, calling to...
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.