Lois Lowry Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  Taken, Reality, Dangerous World

• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  Morning, Choices, Wake Up

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

• The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Memories, Laughter

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

  Lois Lowry

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Color

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

• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  Believe, People, Choices

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