Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even… — Lois Lowry Army Copy Share Image
“My best friend—her name was Helena—lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she… — Lois Lowry Best friend Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Adults Copy Share Image
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“...how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?” — Lois Lowry Cold Copy Share Image
“Trademaster," he said… "Who is he?" Claire asked again. "He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is… — Lois Lowry Evil Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — Lois Lowry Advice Copy Share Image
“The cold rain continued to fall. He remembered, suddenly, how Jean’s hair curled and framed her face when it was damp. In… — Lois Lowry Growing stronger Copy Share Image
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through… — Lois Lowry Breeze Copy Share Image
“It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“And I could test myself - my own courage - with it, too, because when the doors at either end of the… — Lois Lowry Courage Copy Share Image
“A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera… — Lois Lowry Big screen 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
“We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny." Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition. Not… — 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 Habits 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… — Lois Lowry Color Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at 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 Time 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… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
“Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as… — Lois Lowry Honor Copy Share Image
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital… — Lois Lowry Burden Copy Share Image
“Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Adults Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — 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… — Lois Lowry Angry Copy Share Image
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment.… — Lois Lowry Book 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 Friend Copy Share Image
“But his mother laughed again in a reassuring, affectionate way. “No, no,” she said. “It’s just the pills. You’re ready for the… — Lois Lowry Parenting Copy Share Image
“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits… — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron… — Lois Lowry Dye Copy Share Image
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they… — Lois Lowry Ambiguity Copy Share Image
I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He’s changing, isn’t he?” Matty replied, startling himself, because he had not spelled it out in his mind before, had not said… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are… — Lois Lowry Life Copy Share Image
“JONAS RECEIVER OF MEMORY Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of… — Lois Lowry End of school Copy Share Image
![“I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be…” quote by Lois Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d6/lois-lowry-978_dangerous_i-liked-the-feeling-of-love-jonas-confes_2235075.jpg)
