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

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  Mean, Rejection

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• And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

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  Life, World, Sometimes

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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  Letting Go, Giver, Sameness

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

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  Way, Lists, Sometimes

  Lois Lowry (1979). “Anastasia Krupnik”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

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  Memories, Meaningless

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.97, 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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• The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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  Son, Facts, My Son

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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 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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