Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 4

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• Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

  Lois Lowry

  Writing, Self, Employment

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• I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

  Lois Lowry

  Love, Book, Writing

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• You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Tuna Fish, Giving

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• ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

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  Moving, Light, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

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  Book, Adjectives, Found

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

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  Husband, Doctors, Wind

  Lois Lowry (1978). “Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

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  Air, Silence, Feelings

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

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  Elephants, Tree, Body

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

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  Disappear, Shoulders, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

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  Shapes, Rooms, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

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  Trials, Kira, Failing

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• Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

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  Care, Giver, Needed

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

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  Waiting, Weapons, Shelter

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

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  Mean, World, Generations

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

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  Father, Lying, Knowing

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

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  Important, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

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  Gabriel, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

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  Long, Moments, Long Friendship

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

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  Dream, Distance, Snow

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

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  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

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  Moving, Different, World

  Lois Lowry (1977). “A Summer to Die”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

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  Believe, Book, Kids

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• For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

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  Punishment, Community, Decision

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

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  Preparation, Training, Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

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  Book, Blue, Events

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