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Lois Lowry Quotes about Pain

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

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

Lois Lowry
Pain, Pride, Stronger

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

Lois Lowry
Lonely, Pain, Memories
Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Art, Pain, Book

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

Lois Lowry
Pain, Past, Unexpected
Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Pain, Able, Would Be
Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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
Pain, Memories, Laughter
Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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