Lois Lowry Quotes

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.