But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
That’s why they call you Seer. You see more than most.
It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it?
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself.
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren’t many things that I feel I have left undone.
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you’re lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It’s the same with books.
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
Teasing’s part of the fun that comes before kissing.
There was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship.
It’s hard to give up the being together with someone.
I think ‘The Giver’ is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn’t believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
What’s important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you’ll receive in your Assignment.
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person.