Mama and papa when it gets cold, Mama said, smiling. I remember when Kirsti slept between you and Papa. She was supposed to stay in her crib, but in the middle of the night she would climb out and get...
It closed, created a clasp from willow twigs that he’d soaked to soften and
You may lie.
What’s your problem, Sam? she asked in a bored voice. If they didn’t deal with his first, he would keep interrupting. A pea in my nose, he said, sounding frightened. You put a pea in your nose? Sam! W...
Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? For a momen...
There were stars here and there, dotting the sky among thin clouds, but no moon. Annemarie shivered, standing at the foot of the steps. Come, Mama murmured, and she moved away from the house. One by o...
There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. Annemarie,
The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.
Jonas nodded. I liked the feeling of love, he confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. I wish we still had that, he whispered. Of cours...
JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games.
It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.
I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow.
I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where it was, exactly, was one of the things I didn't understand. It seemed to be out-of-doors, and th...
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you...
He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was...
Gabriel had been bathed and was lying, for the moment, hugging his hippo placidly in the small crib that had replaced the basket
Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were wel...
Evil can do anything, for a price.
Do you remember the day when the plane flew over the community?Yes. I was scared.So were they. They prepared to shoot it down. But they sought my advice. I told them to wait.But how did you know? How...