“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
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[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
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“و متى كان الله بحاجة إلى دين إنسان؟ إنما أحتاج إليه لأجعله ديني، و لا يحتاج إليّ لأدين به”
― البيادر
― البيادر
“Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?
~Jack or The Submission”
― The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays
~Jack or The Submission”
― The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays
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