Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Blue, Events

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• The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

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  Mind, Going Away, Giver

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• So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

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  Parent

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

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  Kids, Want, Way

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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 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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• I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

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  Book, Thinking, Gone

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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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• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

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  Couple, Book, Fall

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• I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

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  Book, Thinking, Action

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• People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

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  People, Adults, Firsts

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• It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

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  December, Frightened

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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