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Memories are forever.
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the-giver
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And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
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But there was nothing left to do but continue
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When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.
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The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.
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We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in Hawaii, as I did, or New York, or China, or Africa or Montana- and we leave it in the same way, on our own, wherever we happen to be at the time- in a plane, in our beds, in a car, in a space shuttle, or in a field of flowers. And between those times, we try to connect along the way with others who are also on their own. If we're lucky, ..
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stories
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it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
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Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.
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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
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Our 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.
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Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.
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wonder
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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
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what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
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Pretending doesn't keep you safe.
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It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
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laughter
happy
joy
friendship
true-friend
crying
sad
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The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
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We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
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freedom
future
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Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none."
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how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?
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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 themselve..
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Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.
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you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.
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For all for children To whom we entrust the future
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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
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Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.' Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without ..
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maturation
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The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.
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world-war-2
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It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. But if he had stayed... His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.
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All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
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If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
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I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow.
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They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.
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That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.
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history
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He gestured toward her twisted leg. "Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots. Do you think it maken them quiet and nice, to be broken?"
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Do you love me?" There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!" "What do you mean?" Jonas asked. Amusement was not at all what he had anticipated. "Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully. Jonas stared at them. Meaningless? He had never before felt anythi..
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And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
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Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love."
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faith
love
gifting
journey
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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....
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moving-on
letting-go
relationship
friendship
sister
difficulties
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You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.'
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Well...," Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one?"
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And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.
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