Sarah Dorra

“Why do you and I have to hold these memories?'

'It gives us wisdom.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different—because she wasn’t afraid to be. (Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)
There was something really exciting about that. He liked being near that, that kind of brave and crazy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“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. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.

But the choice was not his.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“You’re the sort of girl who likes to make life more difficult for herself.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning