Lois Lowry

“Memories are forever.”

— Lois Lowry

“You may lie.”

— Lois Lowry

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

— Lois Lowry

“It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.”

— Lois Lowry

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

“Thank you for your childhood.”

— Lois Lowry

“Call me The Giver,” he told Jonas.”

— Lois Lowry

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

— Lois Lowry

Evil can do anything, for a price.

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

“Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.”

— Lois Lowry

“He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.”

— Lois Lowry

“She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.”

— Lois Lowry

“Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them…

— Lois Lowry

“...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a…

— Lois Lowry

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Lois Lowry

“Kira closed her eyes, thought, and said them aloud. "Madder for red. Bedstraw for red too, just the roots. Tops of tansy…

— Lois Lowry

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no…

— Lois Lowry

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good…

— Lois Lowry

“Jonas went and sat beside them while his father untied Lily's hair ribbons and combed her hair. He placed one hand on…

— Lois Lowry

“But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and…

— Lois Lowry

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their…

— Lois Lowry

“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the…

— Lois Lowry

“Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the…

— Lois Lowry

“way, he had hoped he would not. His life would”

— Lois Lowry

“But there was nothing left to do but continue”

— Lois Lowry

Fear dims when you learn things.

— Lois Lowry

“And apples were always, always red.”

— Lois Lowry

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

— Lois Lowry

“Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.”

— Lois Lowry