Lisa Lee

“There would have been safer books. More comfortable books. More familiar books. They took a trip beyond the realm of sameness with this one, and I think they should be very proud of that. And all of you, as well. Let me say something to those of you here who do such dangerous work. The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver