THE+GIVER+QUOTES

CHAPTER 1: Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules. (p. 10)

CHAPTER 2: "But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be."

CHAPTER 3: The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade. (p. 2)

CHAPTER 4: He could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry. (p. 30)

CHAPTER 5: You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.

CHAPTER 6: Those who were released were sent Elsewhere and never returned to the community. (p. 41)

CHAPTER 7: He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.

CHAPTER 8: Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory (p. 57)

CHAPTER 9: "What happened to her?"he asked nervously. But his parents looked blank. "We don't know."

CHAPTER 10: He couldn't imagine what the thousands of pages contained. (p. 71)

CHAPTER 11: "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"

CHAPTER 12: "We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely (p. 91)

CHAPTER 13: "We really have to protect people from wrong choices."

CHAPTER 14: Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? (p. 109)

CHAPTER 15: The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. "Forgive me, " he said.

CHAPTER 16: "And they won't be part of my life anymore. . . And they'll be well cared for and respected." (p. 118)

CHAPTER 17: "Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild