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

Lois Lowry

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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Lying
Someone
Whole
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World

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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.
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Fear dims when you learn things.
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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.
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Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
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I see all of them. All the colors.
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I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
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