Quotes from Lois Lowry

I am teaching this one new habits," Kirsti explained importantly. "And I have named him Thor, for the God of Thunder.

I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.

He began saying chugga chugga chugga when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained.

Elderberry," the old woman told her.

Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.

She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.

frustration because he couldn't see in the dim light to correct his students' papers. "Soon we will have to add another blanket to your bed," Mama said one morning as she and Annemarie tidied the bedroom.

Maybe it is something that artists have," she said, liking the sound of the word she had just learned. "A special kind of magic knowledge.

AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.

CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.

Don't ever be sorry for that. Weren't we lucky that Papa thought so quickly and found the pictures? And weren't we lucky that Lise had dark hair when she was a baby? It turned blond later on, when she was two or so." "In between," Papa added, "she was bald for a while!" Ellen and Annemarie both smiled tentatively. For a moment their fear was eased.

como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final

Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors, Barnaby B pointed out. He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors.

Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

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

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

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often—there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable—so painless. It's what they've chosen.

That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

they were artists, the three of them. Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Because they were artists, they had some value that she could not comprehend. Because of that value, the three of them were here, well fed, well housed, and nurtured.

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

Her name was Rosemary, The Giver said.