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I see all of them. All the colors.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
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What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
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I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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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.
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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
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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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So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?
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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.
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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 have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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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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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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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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