It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. — Lois Lowry December Copy Share Image
“Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.” — Lois Lowry Death Copy Share Image
“It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.” — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.” — Lois Lowry Pain Copy Share Image
In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“There was no fuel now for the homes and apartments in Copenhagen, and the winter nights were terribly cold.” — Lois Lowry Cold 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
“Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.” — Lois Lowry Way forward Copy Share Image
When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I… — Lois Lowry Authors Copy Share Image
“Well...," Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't… — Lois Lowry Acceptance Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Awe inspiring 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,… — Lois Lowry Accident Copy Share Image
“Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for… — Lois Lowry Colors Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry Army Copy Share Image
“It isn’t fair that nothing has color!” “Not fair?” The Giver looked at Jonas curiously. “Explain what you mean.” “Well . . .” Jonas… — Lois Lowry Choice Copy Share Image
“But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made… — Lois Lowry Choice 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,… — Lois Lowry Biology Copy Share Image
“Some of those who had been among the most industrious, the kindest, and the most stalwart citizens of Village now went to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Attention Copy Share Image
“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes. — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Book 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
“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” — Lois Lowry Choice Copy Share Image
“Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.” — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. — Lois Lowry Bird Copy Share Image
“Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.” — Lois Lowry Brave Copy Share Image
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. — Lois Lowry Body 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 Challenges Copy Share Image
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. — Lois Lowry Cry Copy Share Image
