For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

I had no fear of the stream’s perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and...

Mom actually said that?” Cassie’s face shown with happiness. “She always hated my math!””Nah,” Martin said. “She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents...

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!” shouted Seylin. “I will not change into a cat!