Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.
Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.
People do eventually see something that's quality.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating.
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.