Lois Lowry Quotes
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Lois Lowry Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
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.
How could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?
Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.
Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie.
This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.
Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.
The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.
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.
Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered.
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered.
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
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.
The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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.