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The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it. -- Lois Lowry
It's his gift. You see ahead. He sees beyond. And I . . ." Matty fell silent. He raised one hideously swollen arm and looked listlessly at the pus that seeped through the fabric of his sleeve. Then he laughed harshly. "I can fix a frog. -- Lois Lowry
Thnks fr th mmrs- Gabe -- Lois Lowry
But there was nothing left to do but continue -- Lois Lowry
- 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. -- Lois Lowry
With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
It's hard to give up the being together with someone. -- Lois Lowry
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 -- Lois Lowry
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. -- Lois Lowry
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are. -- Lois Lowry
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen. -- Lois Lowry
Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught. -- Lois Lowry
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. -- Lois Lowry
... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction. -- Lois Lowry
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. -- Lois Lowry
At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past. -- Lois Lowry
I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. -- Lois Lowry
The mind can't explain it, and you can't make it go away. It's called love. -- Lois Lowry
Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all. -- Lois Lowry
Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone. -- Lois Lowry
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. -- Lois Lowry
It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same. -- Lois Lowry
It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility. -- Lois Lowry
always busy because of interesting books -- Lois Lowry
Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. -- Lois Lowry
All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road. -- Lois Lowry
Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes. -- Lois Lowry
They sat silently for a moment. -- Lois Lowry
Precision of language, Jonah. -- Lois Lowry
I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay. -- Lois Lowry
Cooking's a bother. -- Lois Lowry
Boy," said Anastasia, "you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone."
"Well," said her father slowly, "it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often. -- Lois Lowry
Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen. -- Lois Lowry
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. -- Lois Lowry
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
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship -- Lois Lowry
To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home. -- Lois Lowry
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. -- Lois Lowry
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book. -- Lois Lowry
So," Herbalist said with a smile, "you can't dance or chew meat. But if you can hear the birds sing and watch the wind in the leaves, then you still have much pleasure left. -- Lois Lowry
The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books. -- Lois Lowry
Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child. -- Lois Lowry
The long neck that extended from his stiff collar. -- Lois Lowry
Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out. -- Lois Lowry
He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else. -- Lois Lowry
Pretending doesn't keep you safe. -- Lois Lowry
She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish. -- Lois Lowry
We're the ones who fill in the blank spaces. Maybe we can make it different. -- Lois Lowry
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage. -- Lois Lowry
Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none -- Lois Lowry
And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country. -- Lois Lowry
You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. -- Lois Lowry
Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. -- Lois Lowry
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them. -- Lois Lowry
But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet. -- Lois Lowry
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming. -- Lois Lowry
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. -- Lois Lowry
You can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. -- Lois Lowry
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none. -- Lois Lowry
What is in here? he asked loudly. -- Lois Lowry
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. -- Lois Lowry
The God of Thunder has fallen into the milk pail! -- Lois Lowry
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. -- Lois Lowry
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. -- Lois Lowry
But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?" "Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness. -- Lois Lowry
Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were welcomed. -- Lois Lowry
Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One -- Lois Lowry
It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . . -- Lois Lowry
Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears. -- Lois Lowry
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 -- Lois Lowry
Memory is the happiness of being alone. -- Lois Lowry
For me? The very first time I saw beyond? It was an apple. -- Lois Lowry
I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking. -- Lois Lowry
She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing. -- Lois Lowry
And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it. -- Lois Lowry
Things could change Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You know about memories ... Gabe, there could be love. -- Lois Lowry
Now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge. -- Lois Lowry
We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny."
Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition.
Not one bit like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar! -- Lois Lowry
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. -- Lois Lowry
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. -- Lois Lowry
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone. -- Lois Lowry
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response. -- Lois Lowry
That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another. -- Lois Lowry
Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy. -- Lois Lowry
Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk, -- Lois Lowry
Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules. -- Lois Lowry
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? -- Lois Lowry
Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone. -- Lois Lowry
When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift. -- Lois Lowry
Call me The Giver," he told Jonas. -- Lois Lowry
Didn't life consist of the things you did each day? -- Lois Lowry
Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules. -- Lois Lowry
The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be. -- Lois Lowry
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people. -- Lois Lowry
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. -- Lois Lowry
It's hard to leave the only place you've known. -- Lois Lowry
The history of Denmark has much to teach us all. -- Lois Lowry
This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four. -- Lois Lowry
Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally. -- Lois Lowry
You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself. -- Lois Lowry
Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. -- Lois Lowry
There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. -- Lois Lowry
For all for children
To whom we entrust the future -- Lois Lowry
The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling. -- Lois Lowry
AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries. -- Lois Lowry
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write. -- Lois Lowry
The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly. -- Lois Lowry
Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love. -- Lois Lowry
Trademaster," he said.....
"Who is he?" Claire asked again.
"He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is Evil, and like all evil, he has enormous power. He tempts. He taunts. And he takes. -- Lois Lowry
An urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love. -- Lois Lowry
It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid. -- Lois Lowry
You've ruined it now," she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan's outstretched hand. "It deserved to live, and to fly. -- Lois Lowry
I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.) -- Lois Lowry
No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler - -- Lois Lowry
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. -- Lois Lowry
Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid. -- Lois Lowry
I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow. -- Lois Lowry
She felt a small shudder of fear. Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. There was fear of beasts. -- Lois Lowry
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child. -- Lois Lowry
Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered. -- Lois Lowry
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 ... -- Lois Lowry
My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past. -- Lois Lowry
Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister? -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
'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
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
We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different. -- Lois Lowry
The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power. -- Lois Lowry
When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes? -- Lois Lowry
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. -- Lois Lowry
I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks? -- Lois Lowry
He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. -- Lois Lowry
He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn't frightened, but he was ... eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens were excited about the event that would be coming so soon. -- Lois Lowry
Outside, she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big. -- Lois Lowry
Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry. -- Lois Lowry
But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind. -- Lois Lowry
It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that. -- Lois Lowry
It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty. -- Lois Lowry
they lived happily ever after, -- Lois Lowry
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. -- Lois Lowry
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
It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. -- Lois Lowry
It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone. -- Lois Lowry
So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents? -- Lois Lowry
Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there. -- Lois Lowry
There were more than usual this time. "It's a big group," Matty whispered to the blind man. "Yes, I can hear that it is. I wonder if somehow they have begun to hear rumors that we may close. -- Lois Lowry
It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty. -- Lois Lowry
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after, -- Lois Lowry
She had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well. -- Lois Lowry
Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply. -- Lois Lowry
Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still. -- Lois Lowry
If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! -- Lois Lowry
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. -- Lois Lowry
The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live. -- Lois Lowry
The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away. -- Lois Lowry
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. -- Lois Lowry
Today is declared an unscheduled holiday. -- Lois Lowry
He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn't end beyond those nearby communities. Were there hills Elsewhere? Were there vast wind-torn areas like the place he had seen in memory, the place where the elephant died? -- Lois Lowry
When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time. -- Lois Lowry
My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right boyishness or something." "Buoyancy," Jonas corrected him. -- Lois Lowry
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. -- Lois Lowry
JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games. -- Lois Lowry
It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving. -- Lois Lowry
Artist?' Thomas suggested. 'That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who makes something beautiful. Would that be a word? -- Lois Lowry
No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals. -- Lois Lowry
She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son. -- Lois Lowry
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say. -- Lois Lowry
That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. -- Lois Lowry
You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength. -- Lois Lowry
Ou have more than you know. And people will want what you have. -- Lois Lowry
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. -- Lois Lowry
I cannot kill someone, he thought. -- Lois Lowry
Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same. -- Lois Lowry
Ravaged all,
Bogo tabal
Timore toron
Totoo now gone ... -- Lois Lowry
If you put pussy willows in water, they'll blossom and then die. Just put them in the vase alone, and they'll stay beautiful forever. -- Lois Lowry
It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas -- Lois Lowry
she said, "thank you for your childhood. -- Lois Lowry
We thank you for your childhood. -- Lois Lowry
Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. -- Lois Lowry
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
We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh. -- Lois Lowry
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness. -- Lois Lowry
Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby. -- Lois Lowry
He seemed much older and very tired, defeated. -- Lois Lowry
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. -- Lois Lowry
CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy. -- Lois Lowry
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things. -- Lois Lowry
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. -- Lois Lowry
Maybe it is something that artists have," she said, liking the sound of the word she had just learned. "A special kind of magic knowledge. -- Lois Lowry
I like being right smack in the middle. -- Lois Lowry
Fear dims when you learn things. -- Lois Lowry
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. -- Lois Lowry
There are German soldiers on every corner. -- Lois Lowry
But perhaps it was only an echo. -- Lois Lowry
And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. -- Lois Lowry
Why do you and I have to hold these memories?" "It gives us wisdom," The Giver replied. -- Lois Lowry
Evil can do anything, for a price. -- Lois Lowry
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. -- Lois Lowry
There would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering, -- Lois Lowry
The fact that I lost my son permeates my being. -- Lois Lowry
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world. -- Lois Lowry
And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color.
Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. -- Lois Lowry
He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden. -- Lois Lowry
Hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind -- Lois Lowry
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them. -- Lois Lowry
Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. -- Lois Lowry
To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words. -- Lois Lowry
There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do. -- Lois Lowry
Fear dims when you learn things" -Alys -- Lois Lowry
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular. -- Lois Lowry
A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. -- Lois Lowry
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young. -- Lois Lowry
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books. -- Lois Lowry
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars. -- Lois Lowry
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. -- Lois Lowry
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. -- Lois Lowry
He gestured toward her twisted leg. Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots. Do you think it maken them quiet and nice, to be broken? -- Lois Lowry
It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. -- Lois Lowry
They can't help it. They know nothing -- Lois Lowry
And apples were always, always red. -- Lois Lowry
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. -- Lois Lowry
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness. -- Lois Lowry
Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free. -- Lois Lowry
A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds. -- Lois Lowry
But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters. -- Lois Lowry
It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes. -- Lois Lowry
What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie? -- Lois Lowry
I wish I could have a cupcake, -- Lois Lowry
Annemarie's silvery blond hair flew behind her, -- Lois Lowry
Oh the weather outside is frightful... -- Lois Lowry
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. -- Lois Lowry
No one had told her what "birth" meant. -- Lois Lowry
Memories are forever. -- Lois Lowry
When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. -- Lois Lowry
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place. -- Lois Lowry
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. -- Lois Lowry
It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient. -- Lois Lowry
Eating together as always: Lily chattering away, Mother and Father making their customary -- Lois Lowry
Jonas was careful about language. -- Lois Lowry
The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone. -- Lois Lowry
You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people. -- Lois Lowry
Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name. -- Lois Lowry
I am the Fiercest of the Fierce. -- Lois Lowry
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. -- Lois Lowry
Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing -- Lois Lowry
they were artists, the three of them. Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Because they were artists, they had some value that she could not comprehend. Because of that value, the three of them were here, well fed, well housed, and nurtured. -- Lois Lowry
I brug you two [gifts] ... I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt) -- Lois Lowry
How could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold? -- Lois Lowry
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.' -- Lois Lowry
Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet. -- Lois Lowry
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later. -- Lois Lowry
That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most. -- Lois Lowry
My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole. -- Lois Lowry
I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance. -- Lois Lowry
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life. -- Lois Lowry
Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names - I midwifed each one, same year. -- Lois Lowry
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. -- Lois Lowry
Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual. -- Lois Lowry
You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial. -- Lois Lowry
tunic back on. "Goodbye, sir," he said. "Thank you for my -- Lois Lowry
Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story. -- Lois Lowry
Our gifts are our weaponry, -- Lois Lowry
-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes. -- Lois Lowry
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself -- Lois Lowry
It's just that ... without the memories it's all meaningless. -- Lois Lowry
Memories are forever~ The Giver -- Lois Lowry
There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them. -- Lois Lowry
In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help. -- Lois Lowry
When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world. -- Lois Lowry
Somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed, -- Lois Lowry
Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes. -- Lois Lowry
Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR. -- Lois Lowry
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo. -- Lois Lowry
Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie. -- Lois Lowry
All of it was ashes now: the smooth wood, the soft edges, the memory of his hands. -- Lois Lowry
I said it because it's true. It's the way -- Lois Lowry
There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. "Annemarie, -- Lois Lowry
his school lessons had been unusually -- Lois Lowry
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. -- Lois Lowry
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years. -- Lois Lowry
I see all of them. All the colors. -- Lois Lowry
Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation. -- Lois Lowry
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. -- Lois Lowry
Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She -- Lois Lowry
From across the room, Mama watched them, -- Lois Lowry
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me. -- Lois Lowry
It's the choosing that's important, isn't it? -- Lois Lowry
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. -- Lois Lowry
He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves. -- Lois Lowry
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Lois Lowry
You can stand at the edge of the meadow and look across to Sweden! -- Lois Lowry
But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed. -- Lois Lowry
The God of Thunder has -- Lois Lowry
this talk will be a private one with Jonas. -- Lois Lowry
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams. -- Lois Lowry
If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. -- Lois Lowry
blue vervain and chamomile, -- Lois Lowry
Well ... ," Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one? -- Lois Lowry
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. -- Lois Lowry
Think only on the climb. Think on what you control -- Lois Lowry
It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!"
The Giver nodded. "It is."
"Do you see it all the time?"
"I see all of them. All the colors."
"Will I? -- Lois Lowry
This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids. -- Lois Lowry
It will help when you learn them. Fear dims when you learn things. -- Lois Lowry
He remembered the excitement, the conversations at home, wondering about her: how she would look, who she would be, how she would fit into their established family unit. -- Lois Lowry
The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then. -- Lois Lowry
When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve. -- Lois Lowry
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons. -- Lois Lowry
It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears. -- Lois Lowry
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment. -- Lois Lowry
With a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby. -- Lois Lowry
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
But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. -- Lois Lowry
way, he had hoped he would not. His life would -- Lois Lowry
My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on. -- Lois Lowry
In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. -- Lois Lowry
I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention. -- Lois Lowry
His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled. -- Lois Lowry
They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely. -- Lois Lowry
The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with -- Lois Lowry
The corner was just ahead. -- Lois Lowry