Maya

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

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