“Jonas did not want to go back. But the choice was not his. He returned each day to the Annexe room.”, “He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.”, “I certainly liked the memory, though. I can see why it’s your favorite. I couldn't quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.” “Love,” the Giver told him., “I liked the feeling of love. I wish we still had that. Of course, I do understand that it wouldn’t work very well. And that it’s much better organised the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.”, “Your father means that you used a very generalised word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete. Do you understand why it’s inappropriate to use a word like ‘love’?”, “Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different.I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colours.”, “On this unexpected, casual holiday he felt happy, as he always had on holidays; but with a deeper happiness than ever before. Thinking, as he always did, about precision of language, Jonas realised that it was a new depth of feelings that he was experiencing. Somehow they were not at all the same as the feelings that every evening, in every dwelling, every citizen analysed with endless talk”., “What if actually we were all twins and didn’t know it, and so Elsewhere there would be another Lily, another Jonas, and another Father, and another Asher, and another Chief Elder…”, “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”.

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