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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.
Lois Lowry
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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
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Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
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I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
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I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
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- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.
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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
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