Quotes from Lois Lowry

given. "Thank

Sunkiausias dalykas Atminties Saugotojui yra ne skausmas. Sunkiausia, kad saugai prisiminimus vienas. Jais reikia dalintis.

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

eight books every week from the time she was two—she had taken more than four thousand books out of that library.

My own children grew up with a Newfoundland dog named TOsh. It is true that Newfoundlands smell of the sea. They also smell of slobber, dog food, and whatever they have rolled in most recently" (Lowry, 2016, p. 140).

it closed, created a clasp from willow twigs that he'd soaked to soften and

It was only in the fairy tales that people were called upon to be so brave, to die for one another. Not in real-life Denmark.

Upright, my tail! Forward, my feet! Prepare, teeth! We approach hamburger!

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. I

Bethan, gleeful, left

this talk will be a private one with Jonas.

satisfaction.

The rain made it seem as if the whole word was crying.

Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.

I said it because it's true. It's the way

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She

Jonas began to laugh. "So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.

The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling.

Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.

For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help.

The Hirsch family had gone somewhere. Why else would they close the shop?