“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits… — Lois Lowry 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 Copy Share Image
“It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly… — Lois Lowry 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 Copy Share Image
“It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She felt a small shudder of fear. Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about… — Lois Lowry 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 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
