01c. 1937 ADThings could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories.""You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib.Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn."Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him."There could be love," Jonas whispered.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
02c. 1937 ADGabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
03c. 1937 ADI feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
04c. 1937 ADThe life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
06c. 1937 ADHonor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
08c. 1937 ADThat's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
09c. 1937 ADIt was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
11c. 1937 AD...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
12c. 1937 ADThe worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
13c. 1937 ADFor the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. 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.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
14c. 1937 ADEllen 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.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
15c. 1937 ADGo, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
16c. 1937 ADBut there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
17c. 1937 AD...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
18c. 1937 ADIt is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
19c. 1937 ADWe're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
20c. 1937 ADDangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
21c. 1937 ADLily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.'Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.'But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear.Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
22c. 1937 ADOh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
23c. 1937 ADWe're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
24c. 1937 AD... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
