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,…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at…

— 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…

— Lois Lowry

“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling…

— 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,…

— Lois Lowry

“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the…

— Lois Lowry

“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits…

— 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…

— Lois Lowry

“Matty had felt this sensation—the”

— Lois Lowry

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to…

— Lois Lowry

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who…

— Lois Lowry

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back,…

— Lois Lowry

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

— Lois Lowry

“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”

— Lois Lowry

“She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.”

— Lois Lowry

“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

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

— Lois Lowry

“children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.”

— Lois Lowry

“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”

— Lois Lowry