Lois Lowry Quotes

But perhaps it was only an echo.

But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love. Aching from the effort, he forced the memory of warmth in...

But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything be...

But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it? Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost i...

Do you remember the day when the plane flew over the community?Yes. I was scared.So were they. They prepared to shoot it down. But they sought my advice. I told them to wait.But how did you know? How...

Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name.

He looked as if it hadn’t occurred to him that it might not matter.

He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, a...

He saw all of the light and colour and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.

I feel a little sorry for him, Jonas said, even though I don’t even know him. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

I wish I could have a cupcake,

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

It was a long time ago.Though it seems, sometimes, that most things that matter happened a long time ago, that is not really true. What is true is this: bu the time you realize how much something matt...

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.

Jonas nodded. I liked the feeling of love, he confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. I wish we still had that, he whispered. Of cours...

Memories are forever~ The Giver

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.

Now he became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain. Tiny, cold, featherlike feelings peppered his body and face. He put out his tongue again, and...