“...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
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't… — Lois Lowry Acceptance Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Awe inspiring Copy Share Image
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him,… — Lois Lowry Accident 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
Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward… — Lois Lowry 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
“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
...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
“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
“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
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Age Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Age Copy Share Image
“They both walked to the center of the room. Jonas put his tunic back on. 'Goodbye, sir,' he said. 'Thank you for… — Lois Lowry Old man Copy Share Image
“We’re almost there, Gabriel,” he whispered, feeling quite certain without knowing why. “I remember this place, Gabe.” And it was true. But… — Lois Lowry Final destination Copy Share Image
“She needs us, for our love, but she doesn’t need us for anything else now.” He swallowed hard and said, “Dying is… — Lois Lowry Love 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
“He began saying "chugga chugga chugga" when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained.” — Lois Lowry 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
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
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at… — Lois Lowry Angry Copy Share Image
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment.… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits… — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron… — Lois Lowry Dye Copy Share Image
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and… — Lois Lowry Friend Copy Share Image
“But his mother laughed again in a reassuring, affectionate way. “No, no,” she said. “It’s just the pills. You’re ready for the… — Lois Lowry Parenting Copy Share Image
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they… — Lois Lowry Ambiguity Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — Lois Lowry Advice Copy Share Image
“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also… — Lois Lowry Color Copy Share Image
“Trademaster," he said… "Who is he?" Claire asked again. "He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is… — Lois Lowry Evil Copy Share Image
“Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs!" Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer… — Lois Lowry Time Copy Share Image
