Lois Lowry Quotes about Memories

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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.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Lonely, Pain, Memories

Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Lois Lowry

Laughter, Memories, Sadness

Lois Lowry (1998). “Looking Back: A Book of Memories”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

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Memories, Time To Move On

Lois Lowry (2017). “Anastasia Krupnik Stories”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Lois Lowry

Memories, Meaningless

Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Lois Lowry

Memories, Shapes, Rooms

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Lois Lowry

Memories, Rivers, Forever

Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

Lois Lowry

Pain, Memories, Laughter

Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lois Lowry Quotes about Memories

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