It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

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.

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.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.