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

…you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life’s a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
– Lois Lowry

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  1. Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn’t possibly happen. – Lois Lowry
  2. 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. – Lois Lowry
  3. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. – Virginia Woolf
  4. It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears. – Lois Lowry
  5. It’s hard to give up the being together with someone. – Lois Lowry
  6. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. – Lois Lowry
  7. But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. – Lois Lowry
  8. We’re so accustomed to laughing. It’s harder for us when the time comes that we can’t laugh. – Lois Lowry
  9. We’re the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different. – Lois Lowry
  10. … and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction. – Lois Lowry
  11. 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…. – Lois Lowry
  12. I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I’m thinking. – Lois Lowry
  13. Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone… – Lois Lowry
  14. Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own. – Lois Lowry
  15. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there. – Lois Lowry
  16. 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. – Lois Lowry
  17. It wasn’t the same. I’m pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn’t the same. – Lois Lowry
  18. It’s a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone. – Lois Lowry
  19. Why do you and I have to hold these memories?”It gives us wisdom. – Lois Lowry
  20. It’s just that…without the memories, it’s all meaningless. – Lois Lowry
  21. And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. – Lois Lowry
  22. It’s hard to leave the only place you’ve known. – Lois Lowry
  23. When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That’s a gift. – Lois Lowry
  24. Teasing’s part of the fun that comes before kissing – Lois Lowry
  25. I cannot kill someone, he thought. – Lois Lowry
  26. It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. – Lois Lowry
  27. It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. – Lois Lowry
  28. You can’t admit to someone else what you’re too damn afraid to admit to yourself. – Beth Lewis
  29. …they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. – Ayn Rand
  30. Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
  31. Don’t worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real. – Jill Shalvis
  32. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
  33. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  34. Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.. – Anonymous
  35. When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. – David Allen
  36. Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth! – Gemma Halliday
  37. Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
  38. Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves. – Oliver Gaspirtz
  39. It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. – Laurie Halse Anderson
  40. A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao

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