It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

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.

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.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.