{"author":"Lois Lowry","author_id":"Lois+Lowry","total_quotes":66,"quotes":[{"text":"It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["feelings","individuality","memories","names","remembrance"],"id":3313,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["challenges","difficulty","dreadful","experiences","fear","helpless","hopeless","trouble"],"id":22025,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"Go, ' he said. 'This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["courage","faith","gifting","journey","love"],"id":25174,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["coming-home","hope","kiss","love"],"id":27824,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["dream","forgetting","sadness","uncertainty"],"id":34342,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["kiss","tease"],"id":38705,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, “I’m starving.” Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out. He was hungry. No one in the community was starving, had ever been starving, would ever be starving. To say “starving” was to speak a lie. An unintentioned lie, of course. But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. Did he understand that? They asked him. And he had.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["language"],"id":55920,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["creation","freedom","future"],"id":59121,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["ya"],"id":67392,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, 'It isn't fair' about everything else.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["achievement","aims","ambition","dedication","determination","difficulties","dreams","equality","fairness","hardships","life","perseverance","success","trials"],"id":71177,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}