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| We are all responsible for the evil around us if we are silent. | | |
| "While his friends go on living without fear, without feelings, and without choices, Jonas encounters the burden of memories.
And he starts to realize that beneath his society's calm, orderly surface, dangerous secrets lie hidden." | | |
| "Another fragment: My father, nearing ninety, is in a nursing home. My brother and I have hung family pictures on the walls of his room. During a visit, he and I are talking about the people in the pictures. One is my sister, my parents' first child, who died young of cancer. My father smiles, looking at her picture. "That's your sister," he says happily."That's Helen."
Then he comments, a little puzzled, but not at all sad, "I can't remember exactly what happened to her.
We can forget pain, I think. And it is comfortable to do so."
Lois Lowry, author of "The Giver" | | |
| "She's a smart girl, a good student, a pleasant enough person, but she is different, somehow alien, and that makes us uncomfortable. We react with a kind of mindless cruelty. We don't tease or torment her, but we do something worse; we ignore her. We pretend that she doesn't exist. In a small house of fourteen young women, we make one invisible.
Somehow, by shutting her out, we make ourselves feel comfortable, familiar, safe."
Lois Lowry, author of "The Giver" | | |
| Those "friends" who wanted USA to be involved in provoked war with Iran not a friends at all. | | |
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