Top 200 Lois Lowry Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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.”

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153. “Friends will take care of them. That’s what friends do.”

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154. “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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155. “It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.”

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156. “Gay!′ he chirped. ‘Gay!’ It was the way he said his own name.”

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157. “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.”

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158. “I don’t know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It’s as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn’t include me anymore...”

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159. “Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were welcomed.”

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160. “Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One.”

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161. “Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.”

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162. “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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163. “It’s as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.”

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164. “I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.”

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165. “The books in his own dwelling were the only books that Jonas had ever seen. He had never known that other books existed. 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. Jonas stared at them. He couldn’t imagine what the thousands of pages contained.”

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166. “For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.”

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167. “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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168. “He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that 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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169. “Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone.”

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170. “Henrik, you need a wife,” Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. “Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?”

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171. “Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.”

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172. “Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And.”

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173. “Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.”

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174. “He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.”

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175. “That’s all that brave means – not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.”

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176. “The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people’s powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.”

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177. “It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.”

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178. “Elderberry,” the old woman told her.”

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179. “Mama was out shopping with Kirsti, Annemarie and Ellen were sprawled on the living room floor playing with paper dolls. They had cut the dolls from Mama’s magazines, old ones she had saved from past years. The paper ladies had old-fashioned hair styles and clothes, and the girls had given them names from Mama’s very favorite book. Mama had told Annemarie and Ellen the entire story of Gone With the.”

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180. “It’s a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.”

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181. “You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden!”

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182. “You know, sometimes it’s nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn’t make sense.”

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183. “For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something.”

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184. “Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names – I midwifed each one, same year.”

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185. “I tend not to think about audience when I’m writing. Many people who read ‘The Giver’ now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.”

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186. “Thnks fr th mmrs- Gabe.”

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187. “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 is able to make something beautiful. Would that be the word?”

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188. “Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, “Might we be human?” But Fastidious did not reply.”

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189. “There are so many good memories,” The Giver reminded Jonas. And it was true.”

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190. “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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191. “I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.”

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192. “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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193. “The corner was just ahead.”

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194. “It was so – oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!”

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195. “He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honour, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain.”

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196. “He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.”

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197. “If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”

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198. “There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always brought a sense of what-could-we-have-done. This was especially troubling for the Nurturers, like Father, who felt they had failed somehow. But it happened very rarely.”

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199. “Release was not the same as Loss.”

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200. “He thrust his tongue into his cheek, wrinkled his nose and creased his forehead. He made a chortling sound.”

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