Lois Lowry Quotes

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

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

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

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

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

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)

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

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.