Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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 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.

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  Love, Book, Writing

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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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• 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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• It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

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  Funny Things, Names

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

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• That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

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  Seers

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

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  Lonely, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2012). “Son”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

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  Children, Book, Reading

  "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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• 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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• 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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• 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]

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  Pain, Memories, Laughter

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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