Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
Be one of many. Be sure that they never have reason to remember your face.
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?...
Tension,
Mine. Kira had stood silently, embarrassed but proud, as the guardian examined the threading she had done. He made no comment, simply nodded and returned the small piece to her. But his eyes had been...
You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listene...
Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One
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.
Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.
The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with
The corner was just ahead.
The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.
That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.
Our gifts are our weaponry,
Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.
Memories are forever~ The Giver
It’s as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.
It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you’re leaving.
He might make wrong choices. Oh. Jonas was silent for a minute. Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for a newchild’s toy. But later it does matter, doesn’t it? We don’t dare to let people make...