“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept… — 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
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
“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
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
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
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“...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
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
