Quotes by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry

– My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It’s full of electrical impulses. It’s like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it… – They know nothing.

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…now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow – moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

Color

Light

Moving

“I liked the feeling of love,” [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. “I wish we still had that,” he whispered. “Of course,” he added quickly, “I do understand that it wouldn’t work very well. And that it’s much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.” […] “Still,” he said slowly, almost to himself, “I did like the light they made. And the warmth.”

Feelings

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Wall

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something–he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

Distance

Dream

Snow

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Memories

Rooms

Shapes

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

All Alone

Lonely

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

Life

Sometimes

World

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don’t know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

Children

Home

Kids

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

Shelter

Waiting

Weapons

But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don’t want that. And that’s the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me–and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

Real

Want

Would Be

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Blue

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Book

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Brave

Brother

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Can Do

Care

Character

Children

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Color

Community

Couple

Dangerous World

December

Decision

Different

Disappear

Distance

Divorce

Doctors

Done

Doors

Dream

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Echoes

Elephants

Elsewhere

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Quotes by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry

– My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It’s full of electrical impulses. It’s like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it… – They know nothing.

…now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow – moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

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

But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don’t want that. And that’s the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me–and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

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