Lois Lowry

Mechthild Hesse

Britta Putjenter

Jonas, the twelve-year-old protagonist of Lois Lowry's prize-winninge novel "The Giver" seems to live in a perfect world. In the Ceremony of Twelve he receives his lifetime assignement: he is chosen to be the new "Receiver of Memory" of his community. During his training, performed by "The Giver of Memory", Jonas finds out about the dark secrets that underlie the apparent harmony of his world

The Giver

I’m only in the introduction of this book and I’m already making “highlights”

Baylea Fancher

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. 

We don’t dare let people make choices of their own…. “What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?… or what if they chose their own jobs?…. I can’t even imagine it. We really have to protect people from wrong choices.

Angelica Garcia

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. 

The Giver quotes

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