- 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.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

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.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

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.