There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who ha...
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.
That he had this power frightened him.
Thank you for your childhood.
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality...
Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And
So, Herbalist said with a smile, you can’t dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.
She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.
She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own am...
One by one the Rosens turned and hugged Annemarie silently. Ellen came to her last; the two girls held each other. I’ll come back someday, Ellen whispered fiercely. I promise. I know you will, Annemar...
Let’s experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can’t we do the same thing?
Kirsti sighed as Annemarie went to the breadbox in the kitchen. I wish I could have a cupcake, she said. A big yellow cupcake, with pink frosting. Her mother laughed. For a little girl, you have a lon...
Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time.She looked at him quizzically. Time for what?I'll explain....
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
Jonas thought of his favorite female, Fiona, and shivered. He wouldn't want his gentle friend to suffer the way he had, taking on the memories.
It’s as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.
It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.
It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.
In the Fen, iffen they give you something special, it be a kick in your buttie.