Lois Lowry Short Quotes

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

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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

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We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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

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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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-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

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

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Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

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

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So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

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Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

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

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

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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

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The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,

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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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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain or past.

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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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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

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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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