Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. And
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.
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...
Memories are forever~ The Giver
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...
Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear? The Giver shrugged. Our people made that choice, the choice...
Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend....
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...
It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others,...
He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.
Giờ đây , qua những kí ức , cậu đã thấy được những đại dương , hồ trên núi và những dòng suối chảy róc rách qua rừng ; và cậu nhìn thấy con sông rộng quen thuộc bên đường đã khác đi . Cậu thấy tất cả...
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...
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something
Fear dims when you learn things -Alys
Don’t ever be sorry for that. Weren’t we lucky that Papa thought so quickly and found the pictures? And weren’t we lucky that Lise had dark hair when she was a baby? It turned blond later on, when she...
Definitely not safe, Jonas said with certainty. What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? Or what if, he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, they chose their own jobs...
But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.