“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
―
Lois Lowry,
The Giver
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none” ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.” ― Lois Lowry
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“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
“Memory is the happiness of being alone.” ― Lois Lowry, Anastasia Krupnick
“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.” ― 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, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.” ― Lois Lowry, Messenger
“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none” ― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.” ― Lois Lowry
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“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
“Memory is the happiness of being alone.” ― Lois Lowry, Anastasia Krupnick
“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.” ― 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, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“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, The Giver
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.” ― Lois Lowry, Messenger
“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
