Lois Lowry Quotes

Stricken

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

Rule,

Henrik, you need a wife, Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?

For all for childrenTo whom we entrust the future

I like being right smack in the middle.

The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

Still clutched Ellen’s necklace. She looked down, and saw that she had imprinted

For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.

Fear dims when you learn things.

He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.

I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller!

There were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not k...

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality...

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

One by one the Rosens turned and hugged Annemarie silently. Ellen came to her last; the two girls held each other. I’ll come back someday, Ellen whispered fiercely. I promise. I know you will, Annemar...

The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Burden.