When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong - every single time.
Read more Chief Elder QuotesFrom: The Giver
Jonas : Asher, there's something I have to do that is right, but is sort of against the rules.Asher : If it's the right thing to do, how can it be against the rules?Jonas : There are things that I've learned that you don't know, that you can't know, not because it's your fault...
Asher and I, we used to dare each other to get close to his place. It was built right on the Edge. We'd all heard of people getting Lost to the Edge, never to be seen again, and yet, here I was, being told that I'd have to get close to it every day - for the rest of my life.
Beginnings... From disorder and chaos, from great suffering, great pain. From confusion and envy and hatred came a solution: Communities. Serene, beautiful place where disorder became harmony.