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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

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Lois Lowry

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.

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Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

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I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

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

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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.

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