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  1. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    Yes, she dyes the threads and then she makes pictures from them. No one else can do it. She has like a magic touch, they say. And they want her for that." "She would be honored in Village.
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  2. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.
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  3. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help.
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  4. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    Cooking's a bother.
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  5. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    Matty had felt this sensation-the
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  6. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    There are only three weeks left, Matty. After the border closes it will be too late. She won't be allowed to come. You must bring her here before that happens."If you don't, Matty, I will never see her again.""It always seems strange to me when you say 'see.'"The blind man smiled. "I see in my heart, Matty.
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  7. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    He wasn't surprised. After the thorny branches had shredded her dress, they had reached for her legs as night fell, and now he could see that she was terribly lacerated. The wounds were deep, and he could see exposed muscles and tendons glisten yellow and pink in a devastating kind of beauty where the ragged flesh gaped open.
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  8. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    Our gifts are our weaponry
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  9. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.
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  10. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.
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  11. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    I am the Fiercest of the Fierce.
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  12. Lois Lowry _ Messenger

    He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man's hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty.
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