He Wept, And It Felt As If

You Will Fail. Then They Will Kill You." - Vandara To Kira, Following Kira's Trial.

Now He Saw Another Elephant Emerge From The Place Where It Had Stood Hidden In The Trees. Very Slowly It Walked To The Mutilated Body And Looked Down. With Its Sinuous Trunk It Struck The Huge Corpse; Then It Reached Up, Broke Some Leafy Branches With A Snap, And Draped Them Over The Mass Of Torn Thick Flesh. Finally It Tilted Its Massive Head, Raised Its Trunk, And Roared Into The Empty Landscape.

Things Seem More When You’re Little. They Seem Bigger, And Distances Seem Farther.

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.

There Is Something About That Moment, When Literature Becomes Accessible, And A Door Of The World Opens.