"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none"
— Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)

"Memory is the happiness of being alone."
— Lois Lowry (Anastasia Krupnik)

"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."
— Lois Lowry