"We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in Hawaii, as I did, or New York, or China, or Afri...

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
~ Lois Lowry ~












Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

More Lois Lowry quotes
"Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
"But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
"Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
"...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
"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, gradual...
"That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person found ways to be more worthy of ...
"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
"I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
"It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.