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Book Review: The Giver

‘The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness…’

‘You can’t always understand something just because you did it...’

‘The day was a long bolt of grey cloth; endless…’

‘We’ll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon…’

‘They ate as they came, rolling up narrow strips of the world…’

‘Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime…’

‘A nuclear crisis is not a worst-case scenario, it is the worst-case scenario…’

‘The nineties were not an age for the aspirant…’

‘Time passes and everything gets bigger except us…’

‘Paul McCartney was one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met. Lennon wasn’t. He just thought everyone else was shit…’