#readwise # The Giver  ## Metadata - Author: [[Lois Lowry]] - Full Title: The Giver - Genres: [[Read For School]], [[Fantasy]], [[Dystopia]], [[Classics]], [[Young Adult]], [[Fiction]], [[Middle Grade]], [[School]], [[Childrens]], [[Science Fiction]] - URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42844108-the-giver ## Highlights - Now Jonas had a thought that he had never had before. This new thought was frightening. **What if others—adults—had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?** His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness—and promised answers—**he could**, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), **ask someone**, some adult, his father perhaps: **“Do you lie?” But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received were true.** ([Location 844](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003MC5N28&location=844)) - JONAS DID NOT want to go back. **He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again**, his scraped knees and ball games. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden. ([Location 1411](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003MC5N28&location=1411)) - The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away. ([Location 1506](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003MC5N28&location=1506))