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I see all of them. All the colors.

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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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And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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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 was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
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Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.
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You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
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I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.
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There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.
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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
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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.
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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