"I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same drea...












It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

More Lois Lowry quotes
"Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
"You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
"But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
"She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
"It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
"...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...
"Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
"Things could change Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. A...
"And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
"I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
"Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.