Lois Lowry: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

“Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.”

“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.”

“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”

“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.”

“You may lie.”

“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”

“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.”

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”

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

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

“Fear dims when you learn things.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”

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

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