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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Lois Lowry
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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
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Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.
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I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.
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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
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Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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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 keep it from kids.
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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.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
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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, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.
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