The best Quotes by Lois Lowry

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

I grew up in Hawaii. My love of the natural world began here.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Hawaii is the only place I know where they lay flowers on you while you are alive.

I have always been proud to have been born in Hawaii.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Well, that, and a little medical boondoggle I have to go to in Cleveland. And by medical boondoggle I mean golf-weekend. And by Cleveland I mean Hawaii. Anyway, I have to go catch my bus to the airport. And by bus I mean helicopter.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Hawaii - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

The three C's of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your Life will never Change.

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.