Lois Lowry Quotes

“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”

Source: Number the Stars

“For all for children
To whom we entrust the future”

Source: The Giver

“It's just that… without the memories it's all meaningless.”

Source: The Giver

“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry book Anastasia Krupnik

Source: Anastasia Krupnik

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry Quotes about memories

“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.”

Variant: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Source: The Giver

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

Source: The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Memories are forever.”

“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”

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry Quotes about time

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”

Source: The Giver

“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.”

Source: The Giver

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”

Source: 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.”

“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.”

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry book A Summer to Die

Source: A Summer to Die

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“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?”

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

Source: The Giver

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”

Source: The Giver

“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry Quotes

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”

Source: The Giver

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”

Variant: it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Source: Number the Stars

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

Source: The Giver

“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.”

Source: The Giver

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

Source: The Giver

“Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing”

Source: Messenger

“There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.”

Source: Messenger

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

“Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.”

Source: The Giver

“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.”

Source: The Giver

“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”

Source: Number the Stars

Source: The Giver

“You may lie.”

“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”

The Giver

“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.”

Source: The Giver

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”

Source: The Giver

“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”

Source: The Giver

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

Source: The Giver

“Fear dims when you learn things.”

Source: Number the Stars

Lois Lowry Son

Source: Son

“He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself”

“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

Source: The Giver

“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.”

Source: Number the Stars

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

Source: The Giver

Lois Lowry book A Summer to Die

Source: A Summer to Die

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

Lois Lowry Son

Source: Son

“Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”

“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.”

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

Source: The Giver

“But there was nothing left to do but continue”

Source: Number the Stars

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

Source: The Giver

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”

Source: The Giver

“Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.”

Source: Taking Care of Terrific

“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.”

Source: Gathering Blue

“… what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”

“… how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?”

Source: The Giver

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

Source: The Giver

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

Variant: Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
Source: Gathering Blue

“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”

Source: The Willoughbys

“Pretending doesn't keep you safe.”

Source: Gathering Blue

“.. you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.”

Source: Gathering Blue

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

Source: Messenger