Messenger es una novela distópica para jóvenes adultos de 2004 escrita por la autora estadounidense Lois Lowry, y es la tercera entrega de The Giver Quartet, que comenzó con la novela ganadora de la Medalla Newbery de 1993 The Giver. La historia tiene lugar aproximadamente seis años después de los eventos de The Giver, y los eventos de Gathering Blue, la novela precedente de la serie. Los personajes de ambos libros anteriores reaparecen en Messenger y dan a las novelas una continuidad más fuerte.
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“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”
“The true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for those where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.”
“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”
“The cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.”
“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
“He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature — to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the "king of terrors," but the messenger of grace.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.