...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 LowryShe fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
Lois LowryThey 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