Como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final,
We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in Hawaii, as I did, or New York, or China, or Africa or Montana- and we leave it in the same way, on...
To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before...
Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
Release was not the same as Loss.
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with diffe...
Occasionally
Mama was laughing quietly. I remember, too, she said. Sometimes she wet the bed in the middle of the night! I did not! Kirsti said haughtily from the bedroom doorway. I never, ever did that!
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
It’s Peter the goat-herd, murmured Tim in astonishment, right out of Heidi! We can teach him to read and write, and then we’ll all smile and hug and say religious things!
It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.
It was a question she did not want to be asked. When she asked it of herself, she didn’t like her own answer.
In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help.
IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, Please sir, might I have some more? would be ignominious, except that he isn’t shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ig...
I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller!
He wasn’t surprised. After the thorny branches had shredded her dress, they had reached for her legs as night fell, and now he could see that she was terribly lacerated. The wounds were deep, and he c...
Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name.
Fear dims when you learn things -Alys
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
Actually, the chief guardian said in a calm voice, you have no rights at all. But I am going to tell you the decision so that there will be no misunderstanding. The orphan girl Kira will stay. She wil...