The Giver Quotes

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Memories are forever.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“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.”
― Lois Lowry

“When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Do you know that I no longer see colors?"
Jonas's heart broke.”
― Lois Lowry

“what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine”
― Lois Lowry

“It isn’t fair that nothing has color!”
“Not fair?” The Giver looked at Jonas curiously. “Explain what you mean.”
“Well . . .” Jonas had to stop and think it through. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Obstacles are mere illusions; everything is in the hands of Almighty Allah.
He is the Giver, Al-Mujeeb”
― Salsabeel

“He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn’t frightened, but he was . . . eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens were
excited about the event that would be coming so soon. But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen.
Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That’s what I am.”
― Louis Lowry

“The Giver hugged him. "I love you, Jonas," he said. "But I have another place to go. When my work here is finished, I want to be with my daughter."
Jonas had been staring glumly at the floor. Now he looked up, startled. "I didn't know you had a daughter, Giver! You told me that you'd had a spouse. But I never knew about your daughter."
The Giver smiled, and nodded. For the first time in their long months together, Jonas saw him look truly happy.
"Her name was Rosemary," The Giver said.”
― Lois Lowry, Giver, The