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Top 200 Lois Lowry Quotes (2024 Update)
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Lois Lowry Quote: “Oh, sometimes it’s just easier to please people,” Maria said finally.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “They can’t help it. They know nothing.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “We’re required to learn to swim but we’re not allowed in the river,” she found herself telling him.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that’s not what I do.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “So,” Herbalist said with a smile, “you can’t dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Only the moon was familiar.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man’s hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I’m going to win the girls’ race this week.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “They sat silently for a moment.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “No one had told her what “birth” meant.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Ellen’s parents? We must help them, too!” “We couldn’t take all three of them. If the Germans came to search our apartment.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?”
Lois Lowry Quote: “It’s hard to give up the being together with someone.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “There are German soldiers on every corner.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you’re lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It’s the same with books.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I guess the important thing is also the simplest. To acknowledge our connectedness on this earth, to bow our heads when we see a scorched bicycle or a child’s message to his lost grandpa and to honor the past by making silent promises to our fellow humans that we will work for a better and more peaceful future.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I don’t know what you mean when you say ‘the whole world’ or ’generations before him.’I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Definitely not safe,” Jonas said with certainty. “What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? “Or what if,” he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, “they chose their own jobs?” “Frightening, isn’t it?” The Giver said. Jonas.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don’t want that. And that’s the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me – and you-to lift that burden from themselves.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Surely that gift – the gift of a world of human decency – is the one that all countries hunger for still.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “The Giver hugged him. “I love you, Jonas,” he said. “But I have another place to go. When my work here is finished, I want to be with my daughter.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Outside, she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. “Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?” The Giver shrugged. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.” He thought for a moment. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “I don’t for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.”
Lois Lowry Quote: “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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