“Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.” — Lois Lowry Achievement Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone. — Lois Lowry Funny Copy Share Image
“Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.” — Lois Lowry Community Copy Share Image
“...what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?” — Lois Lowry Sunshine Copy Share Image
“...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.” — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.” — Lois Lowry Life Copy Share Image
“There were more than usual this time. “It’s a big group,” Matty whispered to the blind man. “Yes, I can hear that… — Lois Lowry Blind Copy Share Image
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but… — Lois Lowry Bad idea Copy Share Image
“And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. "Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm… — Lois Lowry Chuckles Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who… — Lois Lowry Audience Copy Share Image
“That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were… — Lois Lowry Brave Copy Share Image
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's… — 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 Emotions Copy Share Image
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship — Lois Lowry Friendship Copy Share Image
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it… — Lois Lowry Color Copy Share Image
“She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“DAYS WENT BY, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors; and now he began to see them all,… — Lois Lowry Life Copy Share Image
“Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me,… — Lois Lowry Feminism Copy Share Image
“Do you love me?" There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all… — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for… — Lois Lowry Colors Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry Army Copy Share Image
“When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.” — Lois Lowry Care 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
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. — Lois Lowry Cry Copy Share Image
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. — Lois Lowry Control Copy Share Image
“We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.” — Lois Lowry Challenges Copy Share Image
So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents? — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.” — Lois Lowry Pain Copy Share Image
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. — Lois Lowry Books Copy Share Image
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment. — Lois Lowry Adult life Copy Share Image
“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.” — Lois Lowry Inspirational Copy Share Image
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.” — Lois Lowry Depression Copy Share Image
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. — 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
“I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
