Quote

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

Lois Lowry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
Reason
Stored
Made
Shelter
Things
Weapons
Grew
Food
Waiting
Fear
Found

More quotes by Lois Lowry

Image
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
Lois Lowry
Image
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
Lois Lowry
Image
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
Lois Lowry
Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
Lois Lowry
Image
The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.
Lois Lowry
Image
Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.
Lois Lowry
Image
Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
Lois Lowry
Image
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry
Image
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
Lois Lowry
Image
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
Lois Lowry
Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.
Lois Lowry
Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
Lois Lowry
Image
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
Lois Lowry
Image
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
Lois Lowry
Image
Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
Lois Lowry
Image
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
Image
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
Lois Lowry
Image
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
Lois Lowry
Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
Lois Lowry
Image
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
Lois Lowry