Frases de Lois Lowry

„¿Tú insinuabas, Jonás, que quizá no era valiente? Yo no sé qué es la valentía: qué es, qué significa. Lo que sé es que yo estaba aquí paralizado por el horror, deshecho de no poder hacer nada. Y oí que Rosemary les decía que prefería ponerse ella misma la inyección.
»Y lo hizo. Yo no miré. Miré para otro lado.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

The Giver

„Memory is the happiness of being alone.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro Anastasia Krupnik

Fuente: Anastasia Krupnik

„The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Variante: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Fuente: The Giver

„It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.“

—  Lois Lowry

„We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„For 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, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro Number the Stars

Variante: it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Fuente: Number the Stars

„I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.“

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„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, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„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, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.“

—  Lois Lowry, Messenger

Fuente: Messenger

„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, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver

„Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing“

—  Lois Lowry, Messenger

Fuente: Messenger

„There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.“

—  Lois Lowry

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

—  Lois Lowry, libro El dador

Fuente: The Giver