Lois Lowry Quotes

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

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  Inspirational Love, Lying, Love Is

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• Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

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  Reading, Important, Way

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

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  Pain, Pride, Stronger

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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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• Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

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  Taken, Reality, Dangerous World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

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  Art, Pain, Book

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• Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

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  Mean, Rejection

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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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• 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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• Evil can do anything, for a price.

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  Evil, Can Do

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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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• 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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• 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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• The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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  Son, Facts, My Son

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

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  Morning, Choices, Wake Up

  "The Giver Quartet". Book by Lois Lowry, 2014.

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