It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.
We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny.Like Mary Poppins? suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition.Not like that fly-by-night woman, Nanny said with a sniff. It almost gives...
Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
They can't help it. They know nothing
There are only three weeks left, Matty. After the border closes it will be too late. She won't be allowed to come. You must bring her here before that happens.If you don't, Matty, I will never see her...
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after,
The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live.
Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still.
So, Henrik, is the weather good for fishing? Papa asked cheerfully, and listened briefly. Then he continued, I’m sending Inge to you today with the children, and she will be bringing you a carton of c...
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.' ...'Still,' he said slowly, almos...
JONAS RECEIVER OF MEMORY Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the Old and present yourself to the attendant. Go immediately to your dwelling at...
I’m going to win the girls’ race this week.
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 was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .
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.
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.
He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything....