L. S. Lowry Quotes

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

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

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

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

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

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

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.