“Precision of language, Jonah.”

“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?”

“The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.”

“He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself”

“Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.”

“-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.”

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