Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 3

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• Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

  Lois Lowry

  Sunshine, Years, Giving

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

  Lois Lowry

  Seers

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

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  Life, Mother, Ocean

  Lois Lowry (1992). “Number the Stars”, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

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• 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]

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  Pain, Memories, Laughter

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

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• And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

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  Lonely, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2012). “Son”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

  Lois Lowry

  Years, Ideas, Looks

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

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  Fun, Kissing, Tease

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Important, Want

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• It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

  Lois Lowry

  Two, Laughing, Together

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

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• Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

  Lois Lowry

  Thinking, Climbs

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.665, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

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  Holiday, Today

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

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  Genius, Boundaries, Shouting

  Lois Lowry (1977). “A Summer to Die”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Sunshine, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, 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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• What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

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  What If, Mates, Ifs

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

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  Pain, Able, Would Be

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

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  Done, Feels, Enjoyed

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• Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

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  Rain, World, Mama

  Lois Lowry, Douglas Wayne Larche, Susan Elliott Larche (1996). “Number the Stars”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

  Lois Lowry

  Thinking, People, Empowering

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• I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Team, Valentine

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• There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

  Lois Lowry

  Bunnies, Rhyme

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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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• "I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."

  Lois Lowry

  Wall, Light, Feelings

  "The Giver". Book by Lois Lowry, 1993.

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• I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Adults

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