Autumn Street Quotes

“I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where it was, exactly, was one of the things I didn't understand. It seemed to be out-of-doors, and that was why we had the blackout curtains, so that we didn't have to look at it at night–or it didn't have to look at us, perhaps. Yet on some nights we sat on the balcony and watched searchlights play across the dark sky, and that had to do with the war, too. So the war was in the sky, somehow.

And it was there in the daytime, though I was not sure where. It was why sometimes, during school, whistles blew, and we had to run to the subway station.”
― Lois Lowry, Autumn Street

“It was a long time ago.
"Though it seems, sometimes, that most things that matter happened a long time ago, that is not really true. What is true is this: bu the time you realize how much something mattered, time has passed; by the time it stops hurting enough that you can tell about it, first to yourself, and finally to someone else, more time has passed; then, when you sit down to begin the telling, you have to begin this way:
"It was a long time ago.”
― Lois Lowry, Autumn Street

“The Pacific must be the place where, even though there were no hills, no mountains, no trees, the sky would be everywhere— not just a thin and hateful strip, but a deep and endless blue that came all the way down, that touched the sea. In that sky the colors would blur, as if you were looking at them through a haze of tears.”
― Lois Lowry, Autumn Street

“I loved, most of all, the place where the sky and the distant hills met; it was the only part of the paintings where I would allow the colors to run gently together.”
― Lois Lowry, Autumn Street