He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
Don’t keep interrupting or I’ll never finish the story.
Call me The Giver, he told Jonas.
Satisfaction.
We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. {...} We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.
She needs us, for our love, but she doesn’t need us for anything else now. He swallowed hard and said, Dying is a very solitary thing.
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse;...
It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.
Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness...
And she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it....
We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in Hawaii, as I did, or New York, or China, or Africa or Montana- and we leave it in the same way, on...
Somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed,
What is in here? he asked loudly.
Sunkiausias dalykas Atminties Saugotojui yra ne skausmas. Sunkiausia, kad saugai prisiminimus vienas. Jais reikia dalintis.
Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their com...
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
I said it because it’s true. It’s the way
He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn’t frightened, but he was . . . eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certain...