Top 100 Quotes About Lois Lowry
#1. It's a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry's vision and authority ... the film ... illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.
Mitali Perkins
#2. I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
Lisa McMann
#3. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
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#4. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
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#5. Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
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#6. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
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#8. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
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#10. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
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#11. To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.
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#13. Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
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#16. So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
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#17. Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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#18. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
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#19. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
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#20. No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler -
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#22. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
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#23. The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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#24. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
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#25. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One
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#26. If you put pussy willows in water, they'll blossom and then die. Just put them in the vase alone, and they'll stay beautiful forever.
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#27. There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
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#28. They can't help it. They know nothing
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#29. And apples were always, always red.
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#30. I like being right smack in the middle.
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#31. It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.
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#32. Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
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#33. When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?
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#34. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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#35. I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
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#36. ... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
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#37. As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
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#38. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.
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#39. Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.
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#40. My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.
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#41. It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
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#42. Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
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#43. But there was nothing left to do but continue
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#44. An urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.
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#45. She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.
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#46. If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!
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#47. 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
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#48. Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.
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#49. Oh the weather outside is frightful...
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#50. I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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#52. She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.
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#53. Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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#55. she said, "thank you for your childhood.
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#56. With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.
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#57. Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
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#58. He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
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#59. I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.
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#60. The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.
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#61. Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke.
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#62. Hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind
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#63. - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it ...
- They know nothing.
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#64. Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
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#65. My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country.
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#66. It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.
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#67. Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.
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#68. Somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed,
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#69. This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
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#70. AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.
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#71. I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow.
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#72. I see all of them. All the colors.
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#73. There would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering,
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#74. It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.
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#75. My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
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#76. My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right boyishness or something." "Buoyancy," Jonas corrected him.
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#78. But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
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#79. No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.
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#80. And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
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#81. You've ruined it now," she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan's outstretched hand. "It deserved to live, and to fly.
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#82. I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.
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#83. The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with
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#84. How could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?
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#85. Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.
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#86. Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.
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#87. She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well.
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#89. Annemarie's silvery blond hair flew behind her,
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#90. From across the room, Mama watched them,
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#91. It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
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#92. You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself.
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#93. Fear dims when you learn things" -Alys
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#94. She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.
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#95. She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
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#96. He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.
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#97. But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.
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#98. Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
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#99. Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
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#100. Artist?' Thomas suggested. 'That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who makes something beautiful. Would that be a word?
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