A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.
Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards a...
What are those?
It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything mar...
Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.
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.
Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw.
Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity
Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out and was amazed at the clutter in there-shelves and cupboards and tables piled w...
Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.
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...
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...
Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal
This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember.
What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father
It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high.
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...
How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!Grover shrugged. It's nature, he said. Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.
His vision of the future, already shadowed by anxiety, had just grown several shades darker.
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...
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