Lois Lowry citations

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

“Fear dims when you learn things.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

“But there was nothing left to do but continue”

“Memories are forever.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Pretending doesn't keep you safe.”

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

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