Quotes About Lois Lowry

The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.

But his mother laughed again in a reassuring, affectionate way. "No, no," she said. "It's just the pills. You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for Stirrings.

But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope.

Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names—I midwifed each one, same year.

In the Fen, iffen they give you something special, it be a kick in your buttie.

And things to wrap around the bottom of an infant. Not dishtowels." "Pampers?" asked the grocer. "I am an old-fashioned gentleman." "Diapers, then?" suggested the grocer. "Or, if you are truly old-fashioned, they would be called nappies." "Yes, those.

a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

IGNOMINIOUS means shamefully weak and ineffective. Oliver Twist saying, "Please sir, might I have some more?" would be ignominious, except that he isn't shameful, just sort of pathetic. This book has ignominious illustrations. They are shamefully weak because the person who drew them is not an artist.

The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered.

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.