A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”
“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 include me anymore....”
“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.”
“...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.”
“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.”
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