As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.
Lois Lowry...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color 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 LowryI'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
Lois LowryHe wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
Lois Lowry