Lois Lowry Quotes (21 Quotes)

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond - all ... that is Elsewhere - and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

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 their own destruction

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.