Society In The Giver Book Quotes & Sayings

On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process. — Machtelt Garrels

'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.' — Lois Lowry

You have to call Darth Sullivan your 'Liege'?"
I grinned. "Only if I expect him to answer. — Chloe Neill

What I say has no value if you do not love, enjoy, or admire it. — Debasish Mridha

The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps. For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthman. With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. — Herman Melville

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction. — Akhil Sharma

Learn, only to live. Live, only to learn. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation. — Bernhard Rust

Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story. — Jason Ellis

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in. — Ray Conniff