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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 66e375d | Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk, | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5f88091 | felt. Storm. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e7bda79 | Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story. | Lois Lowry | ||
| bdb5e76 | Cooking's a bother. | relatable | Lois Lowry | |
| ae38a23 | The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with | Lois Lowry | ||
| de2ca24 | this talk will be a private one with Jonas. | Lois Lowry | ||
| fc2fcd3 | I said it because it's true. It's the way | Lois Lowry | ||
| ad04518 | My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right boyishness or something." "Buoyancy," Jonas corrected him." | Lois Lowry | ||
| c4d49fb | In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 16d4038 | From across the room, Mama watched them, | Lois Lowry | ||
| 2908348 | the long neck that extended from his stiff collar. | Lois Lowry | ||
| fa61ca5 | With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5b27fa0 | What is in here?" he asked loudly." | Lois Lowry | ||
| fad94f5 | He seemed much older and very tired, defeated. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 30269f3 | Annemarie's silvery blond hair flew behind her, | Lois Lowry | ||
| c2fbff5 | JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c5d87b2 | Four | Lois Lowry | ||
| 441aa1d | burden. | Lois Lowry | ||
| b187dcb | Elderberry," the old woman told her." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9c2238b | all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. IMMEDIATELY, the rasping voice through the speakers had said. LEAVE YOUR BICYCLES WHERE THEY ARE. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c9e9777 | tunic back on. "Goodbye, sir," he said. "Thank you for my" | Lois Lowry | ||
| cd792a6 | Occasionally | Lois Lowry | ||
| 2708db5 | Don't ever be sorry for that. Weren't we lucky that Papa thought so quickly and found the pictures? And weren't we lucky that Lise had dark hair when she was a baby? It turned blond later on, when she was two or so." "In between," Papa added, "she was bald for a while!" Ellen and Annemarie both smiled tentatively. For a moment their fear was eased." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 64436d8 | Jonas was careful about language. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9635e12 | I like being right smack in the middle. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 00017b5 | This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules. | Lois Lowry | ||
| da64b04 | satisfaction. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9758101 | Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She" | Lois Lowry | ||
| db536c6 | The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8909b49 | Artist?" Thomas suggested. "That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who is able to make something beautiful. Would that be the word?" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1fbce25 | For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3de4ee4 | Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. " "Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors," Barnaby B pointed out. "He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors." | rumors taunts war warfare weapons | Lois Lowry | |
| 9c21155 | He saw all of the light and colour 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. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 13e8e14 | He was in a room filled with people, and it was warm, with firelight glowing on a hearth. He could see through a window that outside it was night, and snowing. There were colored lights: red and green and yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. On a table, lighted candles stood in a polished golden holder and cast a soft, flickering glow. He could smell things cooking, and he heard soft laughter. A golden-haired dog.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| b2c4a57 | There were stars here and there, dotting the sky among thin clouds, but no moon. Annemarie shivered, standing at the foot of the steps. "Come," Mama murmured, and she moved away from the house. One by one the Rosens turned and hugged Annemarie silently. Ellen came to her last; the two girls held each other. "I'll come back someday," Ellen whispered fiercely. "I promise." "I know you will," Annemarie whispered back, holding her friend tightl.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d32954a | Mama, what is this?" she asked suddenly, reaching into the grass at the foot of the steps. Mama looked. She gasped. "Oh, my God," she said. Annemarie picked it up. She recognized it now, knew what it was. It was the packet that Peter had given to Mr. Rosen. "Mr. Rosen tripped on the step, remember? It must have fallen from his pocket. We'll have to save it and give it back to Peter." Annemarie handed it to her mother. "Do you know what it i.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d0140ac | it closed, created a clasp from willow twigs that he'd soaked to soften and | Lois Lowry | ||
| 7fc359d | each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 1d28ed8 | Bethan, gleeful, left | Lois Lowry | ||
| 2fabd27 | I think that is not true," Uncle Henrik said. "I think you are like your mama,and like your papa, and like me. Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I quite sure you would be very, very brave." "But," he added, "it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. And so your mama does not know everything.Neither do I. We only know what we need to know." "Do you understand what I am saying?" he asked, looking.. | holocaust hope number-the-stars world-war-ii | Lois Lowry | |
| e870ea2 | a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 546d04a | stricken | Lois Lowry | ||
| b213b97 | What's your problem, Sam?" she asked in a bored voice. If they didn't deal with his first, he would keep interrupting. "A pea in my nose," he said, sounding frightened. "You put a pea in your nose? Sam! Why on earth did you do that?" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 38539f4 | The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. | Lois Lowry |