All of it was ashes now: the smooth wood, the soft edges, the memory of his hands.
A man who had, as an adult, fled the cult in which he had been raised, told me that his psychiatrist had recommended The Giver to him.
A whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
She looked into the face of the soldier
Hurry through the evening’s last light to the homeplace, where the blind
A contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke on...
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...
We're the ones who fill in the blank spaces. Maybe we can make it different.
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 was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.
There are so many good memories, The Giver reminded Jonas. And it was true.
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 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.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.
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 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 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, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.
She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The