Lois Lowry, A Summer To Die Quotes

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

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.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

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....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

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.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

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.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.