Quotes from Son

“Fear dims when you learn things.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Evil can do anything, for a price.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Think only on the climb. Think on what you control”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health-" For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, "- and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But I hope you starve.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“He called after her as she walked away on the path.
"Alys? Why were we dancing?"
"Take your mind there again," she called back. "You'll remember!"
To herself she murmured, shaking her head with amusement as her eyes twinkled at her own memory.
"Only thirteen. But we was barefoot and flower-strewn and foolish with first love.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you’re leaving.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“You’ve ruined it now,” she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan’s outstretched hand. “It deserved to live, and to fly.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler—”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“there would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering,”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“I cannot kill someone, he thought.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“No one had told her what “birth” meant.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“So,” Herbalist said with a smile, “you can’t dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn’t frightened, but he was . . . eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens were excited about the event that would be coming so soon.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“She had seen her son for the first time, in this place, when he was a child of eight or nine. She remembered that day. He ran along the path near the cottage to which she had been assigned, calling to his friends, laughing, his unkempt hair bright in the sunlight. “Gabe!” she heard a boy call; but she would have known him without hearing it. It was the same smile she remembered, the same silvery laugh. She had moved forward in that moment, intending to rush to him, to greet and embrace him. Perhaps she would make the silly face, the one with which they had once mimicked each other. But when she started eagerly toward him, she forgot her own weakness; her dragging foot caught on a stone and she stumbled clumsily. Quickly she righted herself, but in that moment she saw him glance toward her, then look away in disinterest. As if looking through his eyes, she perceived her own withered skin, her sparse gray hair, the awkward gait with which she moved. She stayed silent, and turned away, thinking.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“The door to the cottage was open. She was standing there in her nightdress, breathing deeply of the daybreak air. She was tall and slender, with coppery hair that fell in curls around her shoulders. Hearing him, she turned to Jonas and smiled. He thought he heard her say, “I see the sun.” Indeed, the sky was pink with dawn light. Then Jonas looked past Claire and saw Gabe approaching on the path.   THE END”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“We’re required to learn to swim but we’re not allowed in the river,” she found herself telling him.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“It’s as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Thinking of those times as he passed the cemetery on his way to the evening’s festivities, Gabe recalled the day Matty’s body had been found and carried home. Gabe had been young then, only eight, a rambunctious resident of the Children’s House, happiest with solitary adventures and disinterested in schoolwork. But he had always admired Matty, who had tended and helped Seer with such devotion and undertaken village tasks with energy and good humor. It had been Matty who had taught Gabe to bait a hook and cast his line from the fishing rock, Matty who had shown him how to make a kite and catch the wind with it. The day of his death, Gabe had huddled, heartbroken, in the shadow of a thick stand of trees and watched as the villagers lined the path and bowed their heads in respect to watch the litter carrying the ravaged body move slowly through. Frightened by his own feelings, he had listened mutely to the wails of grief that permeated the community.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names—I midwifed each one, same year.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

“Fear dims when you learn things" -Alys”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Son

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