Top 30 Lois Lowry The Giver Quotes
#1. The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.
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#2. The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Why do you and I have to hold these memories?" "It gives us wisdom," The Giver replied.
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#5. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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#7. It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!"
The Giver nodded. "It is."
"Do you see it all the time?"
"I see all of them. All the colors."
"Will I?
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#8. People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
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#10. You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.
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#11. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
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#12. Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?
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#13. I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
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#14. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
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#15. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
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#16. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
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#17. His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
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#18. If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas)
"It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.
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#20. It's just that ... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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#21. 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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#22. People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
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#23. I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)
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#24. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.
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#25. When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.
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#26. It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
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#27. The mind can't explain it, and you can't make it go away. It's called love.
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#28. Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke.
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#29. 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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#30. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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