“children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.” — Lois Lowry Bicycles Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice… — Lois Lowry Books Copy Share Image
“The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” — Lois Lowry Memories Copy Share Image
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone… — Lois Lowry Experiences Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a… — Lois Lowry Beginnings Copy Share Image
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's… — Lois Lowry Choice 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 Dreams Copy Share Image
“Jonas went and sat beside them while his father untied Lily's hair ribbons and combed her hair. He placed one hand on… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the… — Lois Lowry Dream Copy Share Image
“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not… — Lois Lowry Ignorance Copy Share Image
“He called after her as she walked away on the path. "Alys? Why were we dancing?" "Take your mind there again," she… — Lois Lowry First love 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 Art of life Copy Share Image
“Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she… — Lois Lowry Childhood Copy Share Image
“Kirsti sighed as Annemarie went to the breadbox in the kitchen. “I wish I could have a cupcake,” she said. “A big… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to… — 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 Acceptance 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 Dawn Copy Share Image
“The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon,… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered. — Lois Lowry Love Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress… — Lois Lowry Fashion Copy Share Image
“It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” The Giver nodded. “It is.” “Do you see… — Lois Lowry Color Copy Share Image
“Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed.” “Is it true?” Alsy shrugged. “Likely not. But if the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You… — Lois Lowry Instructed Copy Share Image
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. — Lois Lowry Fear 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
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry Book 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 Memories 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
