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“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Gathering Blue
― Gathering Blue
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“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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The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
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A place for all of you people to sit back and talk about the story of Tom Ward, apprentice to the spook, John Gregory, and their fight against the dar ...more
Blessie’s 2025 Year in Books
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