People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:• Poverty

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.