Lois Lowry Quotes

The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcin...

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas.

The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Then, as the middle hours of the night approached, the noise ofGabe's restlessness woke Jonas. The newchild was turning underhis cover, flailing his arms, and beginning to whimper.Jonas rose and went...

There are German soldiers on every corner.

There are so many good memories, The Giver reminded Jonas. And it was true.

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always bro...

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone...

They were arranged by their original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth. The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. But each child knew his number, of course. Sometimes parents used...

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

We're the ones who fill in the blank spaces. Maybe we can make it different.

She knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.

And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color.Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow.

Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.

Bethan, gleeful, left

But there was nothing left to do but continue

Elderberry, the old woman told her.

For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life.