Lois Lowry Quotes

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his poc...

Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...

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

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and b...

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. No...

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have...

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. ...

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; ...

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about ...

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the ...

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline inste...

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now t...

When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a ...

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...

Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", J...

It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowl...

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

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

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certai...

Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhoo...

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

Things could change Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way fo...

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the sam...

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him...

Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there m...

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. Mor...

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one a...

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can...

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole ...

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth the...

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you...

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythica...

Do you know that I no longer see colors?"Jonas's heart broke.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one el...

We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- i...

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

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different wo...

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.