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

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

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.

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

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

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

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.