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“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

“...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver