He might make wrong choices. Oh. Jonas was silent for a minute. Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for a newchild’s toy. But later it does matter, doesn’t it? We don’t dare to let people make...
Be one of many. Be sure that they never have reason to remember your face.
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?...
Stricken
Again. When we were Sixes, we went and shared a whole school day with a group of Sixes in their community. How did you feel when you were there? Lily frowned. I felt strange. Because their methods wer...
Yes, she dyes the threads and then she makes pictures from them. No one else can do it. She has like a magic touch, they say. And they want her for that. She would be honored in Village.
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...
Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.
The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.
Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.
Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed. Is it true? Alsy shrugged. Likely not. But if the person thinks it, then the thinking eases the pain.
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with diffe...
Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.
No one had told her what birth meant.
My swimming instructor said that I don’t have the right boyishness or something. Buoyancy, Jonas corrected him.
IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, Please sir, might I have some more? would be ignominious, except that he isn’t shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ig...
For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.
For all for childrenTo whom we entrust the future
But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had—well, this was the part that he couldn’t adequately understand—the apple had...
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.