He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs!" Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
