Lois Lowry Quotes

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• -a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

  Lois Lowry

  Inspirational Love, Lying, Love Is

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• Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

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  Laughter, Memories, Sadness

  Lois Lowry (1998). “Looking Back: A Book of Memories”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

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  Book, Half, Other Half

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• It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

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  Children, Book, Elsewhere

  Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

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  Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words

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• Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

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  Pain, Pride, Stronger

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• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

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  Nature, Heart, Bird

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Taking Care of Terrific”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

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  Children, Kids, Home

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• It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

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  Giving Up, Moving, Together

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Summer to Die”, Bantam

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• Evil can do anything, for a price.

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  Evil, Can Do

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• The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

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  Lonely, Pain, Memories

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Memory is the happiness of being alone.

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  Memories, Time To Move On

  Lois Lowry (2017). “Anastasia Krupnik Stories”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear dims when you learn things.

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  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.603, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

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  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

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  Brave, Easier, Knows

  Lois Lowry, Douglas Wayne Larche, Susan Elliott Larche (1996). “Number the Stars”, p.40, Dramatic Publishing

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• He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

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  Grief, Tears, Body

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.382, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

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  Sleep

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

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  Pain, Past, Unexpected

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

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  Children, Book, Character

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• For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

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  Life Changing, Distance, Echoes

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

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  Dream, Stars, Sleep

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

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  Goodbye, Real, Character

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Intervoew with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 05, 2012.

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• There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

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  Doors, Literature, World

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• I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

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  Believe, People, Choices

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• If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

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  Memories, Rivers, Forever

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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