It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a...
Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.
You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
Think only on the climb. Think on what you control
Thnks fr th mmrs- Gabe
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.
You can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
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.
Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.
When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve.
Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.
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...
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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