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I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.
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friends
love
relationship
thoughts
understading
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Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.
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Lois Lowry |
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I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
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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." He rested for a moment, breathing deeply. "I am so weighted with them," he said."
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Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, "I'm starving." Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out...
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Surely that gift--the gift of a world of human decency--is the one that all countries hunger for still.
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The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.
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d7395e9
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I cannot kill someone, he thought.
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ethics
killing
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JONAS RECEIVER OF MEMORY Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the Old and present yourself to the attendant. Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers. Do not discuss your training with any other member of the communit..
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The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.
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Lois Lowry |
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No one had told her what "birth" meant."
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Lois Lowry |
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And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. "Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow." --
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humor
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DAYS WENT BY, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors; and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life (though he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again). But they didn't last. There would be a glimpse of green--the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the riverbank. The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary--s..
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Lois Lowry |
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I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
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Lois Lowry |
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They can't help it. They know nothing
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Lois Lowry |
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I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others, turning the pages, skimming here and there: this sabotage, that tactic, this capture, that escape. After a while even courage becomes routine to the reader. Then, quite unprepared, I turned the page and faced a photograph of Kim Malthe-Bruun. ..
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Lois Lowry |
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Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.
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The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas.
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Lois Lowry |
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It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.
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memories
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Lois Lowry |
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I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)
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humor
little-kids
mistake
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Lois Lowry |
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I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
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Lois Lowry |
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It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.
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Lois Lowry |
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There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who had not been born here, had come from places with secrets. Sometimes--not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness--people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comfort..
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Ellen had said that her mother was frightened 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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Lois Lowry |
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It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.
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Lois Lowry |
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Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
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died
dying
family
grief
mourn
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Lois Lowry |
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And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. "Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow."
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humor
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Lois Lowry |
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The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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Lois Lowry |
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they lived happily ever after,
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Lois Lowry |
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Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.
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Lois Lowry |
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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else."
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aims
ambition
dedication
determination
difficulties
dreams
equality
fairness
hardships
life
perseverance
success
trials
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Lois Lowry |
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Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply."
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Lois Lowry |
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Definitely not safe," Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "they chose their own jobs?" "Frightening, isn't it?" The Giver said. Jonas"
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Lois Lowry |
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dogs
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Lois Lowry |
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No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.
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Lois Lowry |
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now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.
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Lois Lowry |
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Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we husbands, fine. But we won't them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they them. That Bambie, now maybe need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?
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Lois Lowry |
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Kira closed her eyes, thought, and said them aloud. "Madder for red. Bedstraw for red too, just the roots. Tops of tansy for yellow, and greenwood for yellow too. And yarrow: yellow and gold. Dark hollyhocks, just the petals, for mauve...." "Broom sedge," she added, still remembering. "Goldy yellows and browns. And Saint Johnswort for browns too, but it'll stain my hands. "And bronze fennel--leaves and flowers; use them fresh--and you can e..
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herbs
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Lois Lowry |
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893f3eb
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We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. {...} We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
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Lois Lowry |
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and I want you all to remember--that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of--something he can work and fight for. Surely that gift--the gift of..
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Lois Lowry |
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a3527f3
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Why do you and I have to hold these memories?' 'It gives us wisdom.
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wisdom
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Lois Lowry |
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3c440e9
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Call me The Giver," he told Jonas."
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Lois Lowry |
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Author
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Lois Lowry |
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Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?"
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