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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
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We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
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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.
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Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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life
wisdom
lois-lowry
the-giver
belonging
jonah
sorry
place
alone
strange
stupid
lonely
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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 ligh..
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It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
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future
life
the-giver
utopia
sci-fi
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They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.
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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
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I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
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Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered."
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stirred
whispered
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Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories." "You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib. Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, thoug..
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love
gabriel
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If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!
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Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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world
sky
cruel
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now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going
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He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.
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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.
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You may lie.
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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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the-giver
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What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
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He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
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She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
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Fear dims when you learn things.
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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.
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Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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loved-this-part-in-the-story
the-giver
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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
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opening-lines
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Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
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And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true."
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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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moving-on
relationship
friendship
love
moving
giving-up
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My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.
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It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.
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The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.
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Lois Lowry |
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The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,"
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