We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
Lois LowryIt be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.
Lois LowryAlways in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.
Lois LowryIf you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Lois Lowry