Lois Lowry Gathering Blue Quotes

#1. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

#2. Isn't it a lovely ball?" She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. "I wish everyone could be as happy as I am.

Anne Perry

#3. Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. Tate?" "What?" he barked at him. Logan couldn't help the way his dick reacted to it. "I can't even remember what he looks like because all I can picture is you.

Ella Frank

#5. Wisdom devours the weak.

Laird Barron

#6. I never felt like a boy or a girl, never felt I should wear this or dress like that. I think that's where that confidence comes from because I never felt I had to play a part in my life. I just always come as Shamir.

Shamir

#7. Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.

Stephanie Lahart

#8. Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.

E. M. Forster

#9. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

#10. I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

Helen Reddy

#11. I don't like it.
I like it.
I don't.
I do.
See? Rotten soul. Corrupted, rotten soul.

Colleen Hoover

#12. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

Gabriela Mistral

#13. You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Lois Lowry