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 don’t read young adult or children’s books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I’m aware of what’s out there. But I tend not to read the books.
I don’t for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
Every ‘no’ means you are that much closer to a ’yes.
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.