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

Lois Lowry

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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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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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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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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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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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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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Gabe? The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. There could be love, Jonas whispered.
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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
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Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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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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-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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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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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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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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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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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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