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.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

- 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.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.