“Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.”

“You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.'You risked your life.'But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-'He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.”

“He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself”

“Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.”

“-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.”

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

“What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?”