Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.