Lois Lowry Quotes

I will take care of that, sir. I will take care of that, sir, Jonas mimicked in a cruel, sarcastic voice. I will do whatever you like, sir. I will kill people, sir. Old people? Small new born people?...

There were more than usual this time. It’s a big group, Matty whispered to the blind man. Yes, I can hear that it is. I wonder if somehow they have begun to hear rumors that we may close.

But what wisdom do you get from hunger? Jonas groaned. His stomach still hurt, though the memory had ended. Some years ago, The Giver told him, before your birth, a lot of citizens petitioned the Comm...

He began saying chugga chugga chugga when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained.

Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk,

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?...

There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who ha...

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.

Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time.She looked at him quizzically. Time for what?I'll explain....

It was a question she did not want to be asked. When she asked it of herself, she didn’t like her own answer.

Kirsti sighed as Annemarie went to the breadbox in the kitchen. I wish I could have a cupcake, she said. A big yellow cupcake, with pink frosting. Her mother laughed. For a little girl, you have a lon...

Let’s experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can’t we do the same thing?

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.

They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

In the Fen, iffen they give you something special, it be a kick in your buttie.

To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before...

Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And