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“It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others, turning the pages, skimming here and there: this sabotage, that tactic, this capture, that escape. After a while even courage becomes routine to the reader. Then, quite unprepared, I turned the page and faced a photograph of Kim Malthe-Bruun. He wore a turtleneck sweater, and his thick, light hair was windblown. His eyes looked out at me, unwavering on the page. Seeing him there, so terribly young, broke my heart.”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,”
― Lois Lowry, Number the Stars