Quotes from Lois Lowry

Change means leaving things behind, and that's always sad -Gossamer

For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.

The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

It's just that . . . without the memories it's all meaningless. They gave that burden to me. And to the previous Receiver. And the one before him.

May I have relief-of-pain, please?" he begged. It was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for a mashed finger, a stomach ache, a skinned knee from a fall from a bike.

I didn't. I used my wisdom, from the memories. 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.

but it sounded very nervous. Here! Here's a ransom note, right here on the desk! You read it, Mom. I can't bear to. It says steak, right at the top. They'll return Sam if we give them steak. Read it, and then call the FBI immediately. That's my grocery list, Mom said.

The cold rain continued to fall. He remembered, suddenly, how Jean's hair curled and framed her face when it was damp. In contrast to the horrible stench that was growing stronger by the minute, he remembered the fragrance of her when she had kissed him goodbye. It seemed so long ago.

But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon

Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I am quite sure you would be very, very brave.

It's Peter the goat-herd," murmured Tim in astonishment, "right out of Heidi! We can teach him to read and write, and then we'll all smile and hug and say religious things!

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

disoriented. It was our house. He had stood on a porch and taken the snapshot through a window. I recognized the fireplace and its graceful mantel. And the chandelier! We had dined each evening at seven, the family together, discussing our day—we could have

story?" "Of course you do," Gooney Bird told him.

A veces es más fácil recuperar los recuerdos perdidos y los sueños olvidados no pensando en ellos.

Writing is a job. Some days you don't feel like doing your job. But there is no teacher's block or dentist's block. I can't figure out why we have created this mysterious phrase .. only for writers .. which only means I don't feel like doing this right now.

He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on.

Let's experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can't we do the same thing?

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

No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. 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.

Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed." "Is it true?" Alsy shrugged. "Likely not. But if the person thinks it, then the thinking eases the pain.

Jonas repeated it. "Love." It was a word and concept new to him.