Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.
Think only on the climb. Think on what you control
Thnks fr th mmrs- Gabe
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
Kira closed her eyes, thought, and said them aloud. Madder for red. Bedstraw for red too, just the roots. Tops of tansy for yellow, and greenwood for yellow too. And yarrow: yellow and gold. Dark holl...
It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?
You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
You can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.
It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....
It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)
Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.
Gabe?The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. There could be love, Jonas whispered.
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollutio...
Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.