Jonas: I apologize.
[no reply]
Jonas: I apologize?
The Giver: Don't say that. "I apologize." Don't apologize to me ever again. Not here. We haven't the time. "I apologize." That's an automatic pleasantry. It doesn't mean anything.
Jonas: I apologize. I'm sorry. I mean...
Jonas: I hadn't been wrong. THIS was wrong. They hadn't eliminated murder. They brought it home. They just called it by a different name.
Jonas: [as to the Giver's dwelling] 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.
