Fear dims when you learn things.
Lois LowryOur people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
Lois LowryI feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois LowryTags: wisdom life strange alone alienation stupid lonely belonging place the-giver sorry jonah lois-lowry
Some of those who had been among the most industrious, the kindest, and the most stalwart citizens of Village now went to the platform and shouted their wish that the border be closed so that 'we' (Matty shuddered at the use of 'we') would not have to share the resources anymore.
'We need all the fish for ourselves.
Our school is not big enough to teach their children, too; only our own.
They can't even speak right.
We can't understand them.
They have too many needs.
We don't want to tale care of them.'
And finally: 'We've done it long enough.
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,
Lois LowryPrecision of language, Jonah.
Lois LowryI cannot kill someone, he thought.
Lois LowryTags: ethics conscience killing
But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part."
The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me - and you - to lift that burden from themselves.
Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.
Lois LowryOnce, 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.
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