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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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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."
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"If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever."
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"We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others."
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"I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'
...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth."
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"For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. 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."
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"Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything."