God of Thunder made a very small rain shower in the corner of the kitchen floor. Keep an eye on him.
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....
I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.
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.
It is much easier to be brave if you don't know everything.
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. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into b...
It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
It’s his gift. You see ahead. He sees beyond. And I . . . Matty fell silent. He raised one hideously swollen arm and looked listlessly at the pus that seeped through the fabric of his sleeve. Then he...
Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.
Jonas was careful about language.
Jonas, listening, thought suddenly about the bridge and how, standing there, he had wondered what lay Elsewhere. Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it gr...
Mama, what is this? she asked suddenly, reaching into the grass at the foot of the steps. Mama looked. She gasped. Oh, my God, she said. Annemarie picked it up. She recognized it now, knew what it was...
NEFARIOUS means utterly, completely wicked. The character in The Wizard of Oz could have been called the Nefarious Witch of the West but authors like to use the same beginning consonant, often. Perhap...
Only the moon was familiar
Precision of language, Jonah.
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...
Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none. She
Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
The Giver shrugged. 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...
The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone.
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