One day I'm a prostitute and the next day I'm a nun. Where else could you get instant conversion like that?

We were (housed) in a kitchen in a house on the property where the library is now. The first day, two families came in and within a couple of months we outgrew that kitchen and moved into the location we're at now.

We've met lots of friends since we've been walking. ? You look forward to just meeting them every day.

I think women are gardeners from Day One.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.