You may lie.
This is the time, she began, looking directly at them, when we acknowledge differences. You Elevens have spent all your years till now learning to fit in, to standardize your behavior, to curb any imp...
There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. Annemarie,
Some of those who had been among the most industrious, the kindest, and the most stalwart citizens of Village now went to the platform and shouted their wish that the border be closed so that 'we' (Ma...
Now he became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain. Tiny, cold, featherlike feelings peppered his body and face. He put out his tongue again, and...
Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.
Jonas nodded. I liked the feeling of love, he 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 cours...
JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games.
It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.But if he had stayed...His thoughts co...
I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
Gabriel had been bathed and was lying, for the moment, hugging his hippo placidly in the small crib that had replaced the basket
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 wel...
Do you remember the day when the plane flew over the community?Yes. I was scared.So were they. They prepared to shoot it down. But they sought my advice. I told them to wait.But how did you know? How...
But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part.The Giver si...
But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it? Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost i...
But his mother laughed again in a reassuring, affectionate way. No, no, she said. It’s just the pills. You’re ready for the pills, that’s all. That’s the treatment for Stirrings.
Boy, said Anastasia, you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone.Well, said her father slowly, it ju...
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...
A teenage girl wrote that she had been considering suicide until she read The Giver.
Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhe...