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So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

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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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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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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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What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
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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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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
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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 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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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
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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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It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
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And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
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He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
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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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...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 in its slow - moving water and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going
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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 so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves.
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
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