“Mama was out shopping with Kirsti, Annemarie and Ellen were sprawled on the living room floor playing with paper dolls. They had… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was… — Lois Lowry 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
“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected.… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them. — Lois Lowry 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
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry 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
“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
“Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. — 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
