Memory is the happiness of being alone.

But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.