Messenger Quotes

“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“..you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“It's hard to leave the only place you've known.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“When would he ever learn to stop saying “Look” to a man who had no eyes?”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were welcomed.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. His brain and spirit became part of the earth. He rose. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Some of those who had been among the most industrious, the kindest, and the most stalwart citizens of Village now went to the platform and shouted their wish that the border be closed so that 'we' (Matty shuddered at the use of 'we') would not have to share the resources anymore.
'We need all the fish for ourselves.
Our school is not big enough to teach their children, too; only our own.
They can't even speak right.
We can't understand them.
They have too many needs.
We don't want to tale care of them.'
And finally: 'We've done it long enough.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time."

She looked at him quizzically. "Time for what?"

"I'll explain. But for now, I think we should start. If I do it right away, I can sleep completely through the night and almost all of the morning. You can use that time to become accustomed to being whole..."

"I [i]am[/i] whole," she said defiantly.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“hurry through the evening’s last light to the homeplace, where the blind”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“I am the Fiercest of the Fierce.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fire; and nails being pounded into the tender flesh of a man's hands. Painters had preserved such pain through beauty.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“That’s why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Our gifts are our weaponry,”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“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.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“way, he had hoped he would not. His life would”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger