Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Lois Lowry More Quotes by Lois Lowry More Quotes From Lois Lowry Today is declared an unscheduled holiday. Lois Lowry holiday today Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes. Lois Lowry rejection mean There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. Lois Lowry literature doors world Evil can do anything, for a price. Lois Lowry evil can-do You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage. Lois Lowry able pain would-be 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. Lois Lowry real would-be want The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. Lois Lowry unexpected pain past And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. Lois Lowry shapes memories rooms Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? Lois Lowry sunshine giving years Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out. Lois Lowry lists sometimes way I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction Lois Lowry haste people past I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. Lois Lowry valentine team children 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 doctors brother thinking The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after. Lois Lowry ever-after fairy-tale world Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry employment self writing 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 next home littles Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape. Lois Lowry elephants body tree It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. Lois Lowry december frightened 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 looks years ideas They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them. Lois Lowry angry giver satisfied
