Lois Lowry Quotes

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

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

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.

Fear dims when you learn things.

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

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

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

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

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

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

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

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

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.