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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Is your dad still in a huffufle about it?” I ask.

“Oh, he’s huffufled, all right.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“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,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'

...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it...
- They know nothing.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“You may lie.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories."

"You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib.

Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn.

"Gabe?"

The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.

"There could be love," Jonas whispered.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“All I can do is hope.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games