Lois Lowry Quotes About Memories
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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]
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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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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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Memory is the happiness of being alone.
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And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
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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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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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