Lois Lowry

"For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo." [The Giver]

"It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything."

"Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything." [The Giver]

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.” [Gathering Blue]

"Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing" [The Messenger]

"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."