Lois Lowry
Writer
1937-03-20
Quotes by Lois Lowry
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Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.
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Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.'Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.'But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear.Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons.
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Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
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We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.
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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.
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...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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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
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Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.
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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.
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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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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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...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.
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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.
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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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Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
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It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
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