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47efbf8	That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.		Lois Lowry
6debb50	To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.		Lois Lowry
ea112bd	Think only on the climb. Think on what you control	climbing	Lois Lowry
9fce2c3	Thank you for your childhood.		Lois Lowry
18f771c	always busy because of interesting books		lois lowry
29eb1a2	an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.		Lois Lowry
0e023ab	There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.		Lois Lowry
178e140	Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?	lois-lowry the-giver	Lois Lowry
64c9c5b	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.		Lois Lowry
970579b	and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of-something he can work and fight for." Surely that gift-the gift of a w..		Lois Lowry
ba85b8d	Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.		Lois Lowry
d48b656	It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.	war fear inspirational world-war-2	Lois Lowry
e40f99e	Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.		Lois Lowry
592aa3d	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.	time memories life	Lois Lowry
403d6be	You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial."	kira	Lois Lowry
97c24fe	Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.		Lois Lowry
e9c7ab0	We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny." Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition. Not like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!"		Lois Lowry
5da760b	It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.		Lois Lowry
fc3da2b	A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing.		Lois Lowry
ce48a80	Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.		Lois Lowry
9d581fe	It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .		Lois Lowry
c93cb26	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
f5f3b3d	But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.		Lois Lowry
721f2dc	She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health-" For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, "- and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But..		Lois Lowry
9b4e063	The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power."		Lois Lowry
36a88a9	The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live.		Lois Lowry
609675d	Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name.		Lois Lowry
f3b3deb	I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where it was, exactly, was one of the things I didn't understand. It seemed to be out-of-doors, and that was why we had the blackout curtains, so that we didn't have to look at it at night-or it didn't have to look at us, perhaps. Yet on some nights we sat on the balcony and watched searchlights play across the dark sky, and that had to do with..		Lois Lowry
3f987b1	He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.		Lois Lowry
99e1f0f	She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.	memories past melancholy oblivion remembering memory	Lois Lowry
4ab7665	He called after her as she walked away on the path. "Alys? Why were we dancing?" "Take your mind there again," she called back. "You'll remember!" To herself she murmured, shaking her head with amusement as her eyes twinkled at her own memory. "Only thirteen. But we was barefoot and flower-strewn and foolish with first love."	lois-lowry remembering-loved-ones son	Lois Lowry
2742e03	She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.		Lois Lowry
ead58d3	Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.	the-giver	Lois Lowry
1cdfd17	It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.		Lois Lowry
7491fd2	and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.		Lois Lowry
cd52b64	But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.	sewing	Lois Lowry
fa0123f	He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free.		Lois Lowry
9b1368f	a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.		Lois Lowry
0cce293	Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.		Lois Lowry
c0bb7ef	I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.		Lois Lowry
7aaf01d	Precision of language, Jonah.		Lois Lowry
d87de50	You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.	experiences feelings memories difficulty challenges forgetting forgiveness mistakes regret	Lois Lowry
50d70d6	But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.	moving-on world letting-go reality optimism life waiting	Lois Lowry
2b4000e	At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.		Lois Lowry

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

Lois Lowry

6debb50

To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.

Lois Lowry

ea112bd

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

climbing

Lois Lowry

9fce2c3

Thank you for your childhood.

Lois Lowry

18f771c

always busy because of interesting books

lois lowry

29eb1a2

an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.

Lois Lowry

0e023ab

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

Lois Lowry

178e140

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

lois-lowry the-giver

Lois Lowry

64c9c5b

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.

Lois Lowry

970579b

and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of-something he can work and fight for." Surely that gift-the gift of a w..

Lois Lowry

ba85b8d

Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.

Lois Lowry

d48b656

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

war fear inspirational world-war-2

Lois Lowry

e40f99e

Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.

Lois Lowry

592aa3d

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.

time memories life

Lois Lowry

403d6be

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial."

kira

Lois Lowry

97c24fe

Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.

Lois Lowry

e9c7ab0

We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny." Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition. Not like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!"

Lois Lowry

5da760b

It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.

Lois Lowry

fc3da2b

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing.

Lois Lowry

ce48a80

Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.

Lois Lowry

9d581fe

It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .

Lois Lowry

c93cb26

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

f5f3b3d

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name.

Lois Lowry

721f2dc

She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health-" For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, "- and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But..

Lois Lowry

9b4e063

The man corrected him. "Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power."

Lois Lowry

36a88a9

The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live.

Lois Lowry

609675d

Gay!' he chirped. 'Gay!' It was the way he said his own name.

Lois Lowry

f3b3deb

I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where it was, exactly, was one of the things I didn't understand. It seemed to be out-of-doors, and that was why we had the blackout curtains, so that we didn't have to look at it at night-or it didn't have to look at us, perhaps. Yet on some nights we sat on the balcony and watched searchlights play across the dark sky, and that had to do with..

Lois Lowry

3f987b1

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

Lois Lowry

99e1f0f

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

memories past melancholy oblivion remembering memory

Lois Lowry

4ab7665

He called after her as she walked away on the path. "Alys? Why were we dancing?" "Take your mind there again," she called back. "You'll remember!" To herself she murmured, shaking her head with amusement as her eyes twinkled at her own memory. "Only thirteen. But we was barefoot and flower-strewn and foolish with first love."

lois-lowry remembering-loved-ones son

Lois Lowry

2742e03

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

Lois Lowry

ead58d3

Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

the-giver

Lois Lowry

1cdfd17

It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.

Lois Lowry

7491fd2

and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.

Lois Lowry

cd52b64

But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.

sewing

Lois Lowry

fa0123f

He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free.

Lois Lowry

9b1368f

a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Lois Lowry

0cce293

Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.

Lois Lowry

c0bb7ef

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

Lois Lowry

7aaf01d

Precision of language, Jonah.

Lois Lowry

d87de50

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

experiences feelings memories difficulty challenges forgetting forgiveness mistakes regret

Lois Lowry

50d70d6

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

moving-on world letting-go reality optimism life waiting

Lois Lowry

2b4000e

At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

Lois Lowry