Quotes About Understanding

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

Precision of language, Jonah.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.

It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?

Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?' 'It gives us wisdom.

Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

They sat silently for a moment.

I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.

Jonas was careful about language.

Fear dims when you learn things -Alys

Jonas repeated it. "Love." It was a word and concept new to him.

Jonas: '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.

I feel a little sorry for him," Jonas said, "even though I don't even know him. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)

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It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. I

Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.

Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.