Lois Lowry Quotes

A whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

What words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing.

Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.

But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.

CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that’s just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a...

Don’t ever be sorry for that. Weren’t we lucky that Papa thought so quickly and found the pictures? And weren’t we lucky that Lise had dark hair when she was a baby? It turned blond later on, when she...

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

Giờ đây , qua những kí ức , cậu đã thấy được những đại dương , hồ trên núi và những dòng suối chảy róc rách qua rừng ; và cậu nhìn thấy con sông rộng quen thuộc bên đường đã khác đi . Cậu thấy tất cả...

He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

He was in a room filled with people, and it was warm, with firelight glowing on a hearth. He could see through a window that outside it was night, and snowing. There were colored lights: red and green...

I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others,...

I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. I

Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games. He sat...

Jonas looked down through the dusk at the little head against his chest. Gabriel’s curly hair was matted and filthy, and there were tearstains outlined in dirt on his pale cheeks. His eyes were closed...

Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear? The Giver shrugged. Our people made that choice, the choice...