He looked as if it hadn’t occurred to him that it might not matter.
Four
Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of...
Father? Mother? Jonas asked tentatively after the evening meal. I have a question I want to ask you. What is it, Jonas? his father asked. He made himself say the words, though he felt flushed with emb...
Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names—I midwifed each one, same year.
But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.
But the bicycle stopped. It would not move. He got off and let it drop sideways into thesnow. For a moment he thought how easy it would be to drop beside it himself, to let himself and Gabriel slide i...
Bethan, gleeful, left
At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or...
Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.
A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing.
Way, he had hoped he would not. His life would
The long neck that extended from his stiff collar.
She knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.
His school lessons had been unusually
Dogs
And we have been told that they may come tonight
You have the colors, The Giver told him. And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke on...
Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.