Lois Lowry

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Lois Ann Lowry (; née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.

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

—Lois Lowry in The Giver

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

—Lois Lowry in The Giver

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Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

—Lois Lowry in Messenger

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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

—Lois Lowry in A Summer to Die

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It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

—Lois Lowry in A Summer to Die

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