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The Giver Quotes

“You see, no one in our Community has any memory of the past. Only me. When the Elders need guidance on matters that are beyond their experience, I provide wisdom. That is now your role, to provide guidance in the present using memories of the past.”
— The Giver, The Giver
Tagged: Community, Elders, Wisdom, Guidance
“Everything is connected, everything is a balance. With good there is always bad. The two...”
— The Giver, The Giver
Tagged: Connected, Balance, Good and Bad
“You have the courage. Let me give you the strength.”
— The Giver, The Giver
Tagged: Courage, strength
“Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. You can change things. You can make things better.”
— The Giver, The Giver
Tagged: Memories, Future, Change
“Oh, all the time. Mostly for personal amusement—but I won't lie to you.”
— The Giver, The Giver
Tagged: lying, personal amusement
“Your instructions said I can lie. Do you lie?”
— Jonas, The Giver
Tagged: lying
“ [as to the Giver's dwelling] Asher and I, we used to dare each other to get close to his place. It was built right on the Edge. We'd all heard of people getting Lost to the Edge, never to be seen again, and yet, here I was, being told that I'd have to get close to it every day—for the rest of my life.”
— Jonas, The Giver
Tagged: The Edge
“I hadn't been wrong. THIS was wrong. They hadn't eliminated murder. They brought it home. They just called it by a different name.”
— Jonas, The Giver
Tagged: Murder, Wrong, Semantics
“I had learned that knowing what something is is not the same as knowing how something feels.”
— Jonas, The Giver
Tagged: Knowing, Feeling
“The Giver: Her name was Rosemary. She was my daughter. I loved her.

Chief Elder: Precision of language.

The Giver: Haha! Could not be more precise.”
— Chief Elder, The Giver
Tagged: Lover, Daughter, precise language
“Chief Elder: [beginning her commencement speech] Beginnings... From disorder and chaos, from great suffering, great pain. From confusion and envy and hatred came a solution: Communities. Serene, beautiful place where disorder became harmony.

Jonas: I apologize. [no reply] I apologize?

The Giver: Don't say that. 'I apologize.' Don't apologize to me ever again. Not here. We haven't the time. 'I apologize.' That's an automatic pleasantry. It doesn't mean anything.

Jonas: I apologize. I'm sorry. I mean...”
— Chief Elder, The Giver
Tagged: Disorder, Pain, Confusion, communities
“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong—every single time.”
— Chief Elder, The Giver
Tagged: Freedom, Free Will
“The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.”
— Lois Lowry, The Giver
Tagged: Love, Feelings, inexplicable
“If you don’t feel, what’s the point? What can you do?”
— Jonas, The Giver
Tagged: Feeling, Feel, emotions, Doing, capability, Life
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
— Lois Lowry, The Giver
Tagged: Memories, Pain, Loneliness, sharing memories, Nostalgia, Alone, Solitude
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