Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Thinking, Gone

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• I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.

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  Book, Writing, Kids

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  Couple, Book, Fall

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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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• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  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 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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• 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 left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

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  Home, Salmon, Riding

  Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.4, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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