01c. 1937 ADI'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?Lois Lowry / quote ↗
02c. 1937 ADYou 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.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
03c. 1937 ADWhen you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
05c. 1937 ADTo his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
06c. 1937 ADThat day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
07c. 1937 ADNow he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
10c. 1937 ADIt was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
11c. 1937 ADHe wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
13c. 1937 ADI brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)Lois Lowry / quote ↗
14c. 1937 ADYou remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.'You risked your life.'But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-'He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
15c. 1937 ADA stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon there will be a film. Does The Giver have the same effect when it is presented in a different way: It's hard to know. A book, to me is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. The important thing is that another medium--stage, film, music--doesn't obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn't gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
16c. 1937 ADI'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 / quote ↗
17c. 1937 ADWhen I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.Lois Lowry / quote ↗
