Lois Lowry Quotes

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

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

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

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

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

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

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

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

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Fear dims when you learn things.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

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

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

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

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

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

I see all of them. All the colors.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

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

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

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

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

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

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

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

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

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