Lois Lowry Quotes
Lois Lowry Quotes
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
2741But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
2255 It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
4946 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.
1844 It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
3358 He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
1359 Memory is the happiness of being alone.
3537 Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.
4677 Cooking's a bother.
4662 It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
3742 Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
4517 It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
2099 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.
2791 ...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.
1005 The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
2587 Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
1858 When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.
3169 Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
1147 We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
3148 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.
2333 It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
1431 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....
3435 It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.
4446 We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.
1151 Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.
3960 The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
2817 ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
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