Lois Lowry Quotes

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.

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

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

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

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

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

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

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

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

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

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

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

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

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....

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

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

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

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