The Giver Precise Language Quotes

#1. Why so many wounded people look for forgiveness from who has injured them?

Luigina Sgarro

#2. I follow, always, because it's the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when I'm certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

Jackson Pearce

#3. Lighter things will happen to you, birds will steal your husband's sandwich on the beach, and your child will still be dead, and your husband's shock will still be funny.

Elizabeth McCracken

#4. Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

Luc De Clapiers

#5. I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

Dalia Mogahed

#6. With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

#7. Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

Dee Dee Myers

#8. Here's to you. Here's to me. Friends for life we'll always be. If we should ever disagree, fuck you. Here's to me.

T.K. Leigh

#9. I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

Kristen Schaal

#10. From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!"
The Giver nodded. "It is."
"Do you see it all the time?"
"I see all of them. All the colors."
"Will I?

Lois Lowry