Melissa Lowe:
CLASS OF 1984
Anahuac High SchoolClass of 1984
Anahuac, TX
Barbers Hill High SchoolClass of 1984
Mont belvieu, TX
Melissa's Story
Melissa is from Anahuac, Texas. Melissa's schools include Anahuac High School, Barbers Hill High School.
Melissa's interests include Art, Landscape, Literature. Music Melissa likes includes Vogelmann, Eugene Concert Choir, Jack Liebeck. Books Melissa likes include Misfortune, A Strong West Wind: A Memoir, The Tortilla Curtain. Movies Melissa likes include W.E. Movie, Meek's Cutoff, Stand By Me. TV shows Melissa likes include The Big Bang Theory, Celebrity Big Brother 2012., Meet The Press.
One of Melissa's favorite quotes is:"“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear." --Stephen King
Favorite lines in books:
Becca: Does it ever go away?
Nat: No, I don't think it does. Not for me, it hasn't - has gone on for eleven years. But it changes though.
Becca: How?
Nat: I don't know... the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and... carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that. Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda...
[deep breath]
Nat: not that you'd like it exactly, but it's what you've got inst...Expand for more
ead of your son. So, you carry it around. And uh... it doesn't go away. Which is...
Becca: Which is what?
Nat: Fine, actually.
John Keating: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!
Favorite lines in books:
"His voice had the unmistakable lightness of someone telling something extremely important, a story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be an unsympathetic ear." The Thirteenth Tale by: Diane Setterfield
My gripe is not with lovers of truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie."
~ The Thirteenth Tale A Novel by Diane Setterfield
"Take cars," I said. I said it in this very quiet voice. "Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
-Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye".
More about Melissa:" I have lived in Oregon about 25 years, been married to my husband Rick for 23, and we have 2 amazing college age daughters, we love camping, hiking, and traveling around the beautiful Pacific Northwest. ".
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