“Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.”

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

“Fear dims when you learn things.”

“Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

“That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.”

“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.”