Lois Lowry Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

  Lois Lowry

  Giving Up, Moving, Together

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

• 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

• 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

• 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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