People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid 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.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

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

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.