Lois Lowry Quotes

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

Farewell! I go to find the Sun!

Being lost is worth the being found.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.