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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

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#2

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#3

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#4

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

tags: alienation, alone, belonging, jonah, life, lois-lowry, lonely, place, sorry, strange, stupid, the-giver, wisdom

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#5

“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#6

“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?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#7

“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#8

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

tags: lois-lowry, the-giver

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#9

“I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#10

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#11

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: humanity

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#12

“But there was nothing left to do but continue”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#13

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

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#14

“They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#15

“If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#16

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#17

“Pretending doesn't keep you safe.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#18

“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

tags: creation, freedom, future

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#19

“Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#20

“To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#21

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

tags: gift, kira, the-giver

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#22

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#23

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#24

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#25

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#26

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

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#27

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#28

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

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#29

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#30

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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