Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of i...
He could feel the little head nudge his back, bouncing gently against him as he rode. Gabriel was sleeping soundly, strapped into the seat. Before he had left the dwelling, he had laid his hånds firml...
He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the colour he knew as red.
He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself...
He gestured toward her twisted leg. Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots. Do you think it maken them quiet and nice, to be broken?
Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we husbands, fine. But we won't them. Like our mothers. My mom could do...
I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.
It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To...
It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!The Giver nodded. It is.Do you see it all the time?I see all of them. All the colors.Will I?
It’s as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.
I’m going to win the girls’ race this week.
Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life...
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.
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.
No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. That’s why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what...
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. And
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
Pretending doesn't keep you safe.
Selected for what? Claire had never heard of such a thing before. Rolf raised an eyebrow and shrugged. I don’t know. Didn’t she say? Yes, but I didn’t understand what she was talking about. Did any of...
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