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From Quotes by Lois Lowry
- I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to…
- For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
- But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and…
- Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12,…
- I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it.…
- ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried…
- 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…
- Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body…
- 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…
- It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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