Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 2

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• Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

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  Pain, Past, Unexpected

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Lois Lowry

  Giving Up, Moving, Together

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

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• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

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  Past, People, Haste

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

  Lois Lowry

  Hate, Thinking, Leaving

  Lois Lowry (2012). “The Giver Quartet: Son”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

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  Distance, Littles, Bigger

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

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  Children, Book, Character

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• Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

  Lois Lowry

  Sleep

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

  Lois Lowry

  Grief, Tears, Body

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.382, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Morning, Choices, Wake Up

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

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• And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

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  Memories, Shapes, Rooms

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• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

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  World, Fairy Tale, Ever After

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see all of them. All the colors.

  Lois Lowry

  Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

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  Real, Would Be, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Knowing, Feelings

  Boston Globe interview, www.bostonglobe.com. July 27, 2013.

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• You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.' But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-' He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.

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  Mean, Thinking, Hands

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• Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

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  Fun, Hard Work, Writing

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• - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

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  Technology, Taught Us, Brain

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

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  Life, Waiting, World

  Lois Lowry (1977). “A Summer to Die”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

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  Divorce, Racism, Attention

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• We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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  Letting Go, Giver, Sameness

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, 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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• Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

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  Home, Littles, Next

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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.

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  Two, Laughing, Together

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

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

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  Thinking, Climbs

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

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