The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
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.
Fear dims when you learn things.
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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.
Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
Evil can do anything, for a price.
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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 fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.
Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.
If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.
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