Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.
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...
Maybe it is something that artists have, she said, liking the sound of the word she had just learned. A special kind of magic knowledge.
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 was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.
It was a long time ago.Though it seems, sometimes, that most things that matter happened a long time ago, that is not really true. What is true is this: bu the time you realize how much something matt...
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
I feel a little sorry for him, Jonas said, even though I don’t even know him. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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,...
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 Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life.
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...
CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that’s just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a...
Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.
Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.