Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of...
When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.
Lina looked out at the lighted streets spreading away in every direction, the streets she knew so well. She loved her city, worn out and crumbling though it was.
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.
Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the trea...
Can't it be stopped? said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning, Maddy said. If someon...
Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.
They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed t...
It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high.
His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it m...
The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.
She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.
In the second row was a boy named Doon Harrow. He sat with his shoulders hunched, his eyes squeezed shut in concentration, and his hands clasped tightly together. His hair looked rumpled, as if he had...
Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage?
Then there might be dead people.
Father: And when anger is the boss, you get-Doon: Unintended consequences.
That's the city I see in my dreams, Poppy. It isn't like Ember at all. The sky is light and the buildings are tall and sort of sparkle. (Lina)
Beeson, wearing a rain jacket with the hood up over her
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