So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents? Lois Lowry More Quotes by Lois Lowry More Quotes From Lois Lowry ...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 Lois Lowry color light moving 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. Lois Lowry enjoyed done feels She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist. Lois Lowry doctors husband wind It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. Lois Lowry together laughing two Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. Lois Lowry shouting genius boundaries 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 a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech] Lois Lowry laughter pain memories Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. Lois Lowry dangerous-world taken reality 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. Lois Lowry ocean mother life Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. Lois Lowry giver care needed It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone. Lois Lowry funny-things names Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. Lois Lowry shelter weapons waiting And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. Lois Lowry all-alone lonely 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. Lois Lowry riding salmon home Think only on the climb. Think on what you control Lois Lowry climbs thinking I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate. Lois Lowry good debate character people I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams. Lois Lowry own memory dreams memories Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes. Lois Lowry i-am eyes myself me What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming. Lois Lowry me moment destination character Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young. Lois Lowry disaster nice choices reading You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people. Lois Lowry you reading life people
