345 Quotes by Lois Lowry

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

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.