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“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“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.”
― The Giver
...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.”
― The Giver
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