“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital… — Lois Lowry Burden Copy Share Image
“Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as… — Lois Lowry Honor Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Adults Copy Share Image
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I… — Lois Lowry Change Copy Share Image
“But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?” “I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from the memories.… — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that… — Lois Lowry Adults Copy Share Image
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already… — Lois Lowry Books Copy Share Image
“There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for… — Lois Lowry Crime Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
“Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our… — Lois Lowry Memories Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even… — Lois Lowry Army Copy Share Image
“My best friend—her name was Helena—lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she… — Lois Lowry Best friend Copy Share Image
“...how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?” — Lois Lowry Cold Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Adults Copy Share Image
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered. — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress… — Lois Lowry Fashion Copy Share Image
“It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” The Giver nodded. “It is.” “Do you see… — Lois Lowry Color Copy Share Image
“What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You… — Lois Lowry Instructed Copy Share Image
“Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed.” “Is it true?” Alsy shrugged. “Likely not. But if the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back,… — Lois Lowry All alone Copy Share Image
Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place… — Lois Lowry Awakening Copy Share Image
“Selected for what?” Claire had never heard of such a thing before. Rolf raised an eyebrow and shrugged. “I don’t know.” “Didn’t… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Adolescent Copy Share Image
