Fear dims when you learn things.

- Lois Lowry

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

- Lois Lowry

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

- Lois Lowry

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

- Lois Lowry

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

- Lois Lowry

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

- Lois Lowry

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

- Lois Lowry

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

- Lois Lowry

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

- Lois Lowry