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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
Lois Lowry
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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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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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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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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
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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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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
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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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Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
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Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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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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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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As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.
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