Top 200 Lois Lowry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Be one of many. Be sure that they never have reason to remember your face.”

— Lois Lowry

102. “Oh, sometimes it’s just easier to please people,” Maria said finally.”

— Lois Lowry

103. “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.”

— Lois Lowry

104. “They can’t help it. They know nothing.”

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105. “Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that’s all.”

— Lois Lowry

106. “It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.”

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107. “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.”

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108. “The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.”

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109. “Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.”

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110. “There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that’s not what I do.”

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111. “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

112. “Only the moon was familiar.”

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113. “They sat silently for a moment.”

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114. “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

115. “No one had told her what “birth” meant.”

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116. “Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

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117. “I’m going to win the girls’ race this week.”

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118. “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

119. “Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”

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120. “So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?”

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121. “It’s hard to give up the being together with someone.”

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122. “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

123. “There are German soldiers on every corner.”

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124. “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

125. “She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The.”

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126. “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.”

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127. “Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.”

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128. “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.”

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129. “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

130. “I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.”

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131. “I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “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

134. “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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135. “Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

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136. “He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself.”

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

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138. “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”

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139. “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.”

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140. “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.”

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141. “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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142. “Surely that gift – the gift of a world of human decency – is the one that all countries hunger for still.”

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143. “Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in prestige.”

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144. “Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.”

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145. “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

146. “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.”

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147. “Mata batin yang merupakan berkah kesepian.”

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148. “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

149. “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.”

— Lois Lowry

150. “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.”

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