“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also… — 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… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs!" Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. “Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors… — Lois Lowry 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 Copy Share Image
“To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Do you love me?" There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all… — 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
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. — Lois Lowry 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 Copy Share Image
“A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make… — 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
“We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.” — 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
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
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“This is the time," she began, looking directly at them, "when we acknowledge differences. You Elevens have spent all your years till… — 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
