Important Quotes by Lois Lowry

“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

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

“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

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is…

— Lois Lowry

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

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

“Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.”

— Lois Lowry

“Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.”

— Lois Lowry

“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

“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

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

“...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

“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

“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

“Matty had felt this sensation—the”

— Lois Lowry