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One Quotes by Lois Lowry
- I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't…
- I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
- I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who…
- She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because…
- I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I…
- -a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
- - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If…
- There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
- Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of…
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