Lois Lowry Quotes

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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

Lois Lowry
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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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

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

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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

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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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What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

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

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She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

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It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

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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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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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For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

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

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

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Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

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Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

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