Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry? One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

About This Quote

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a short story written in 1961. It is about a man, Charlie Gordon, who is an introverted research assistant in the Applied Psychology Department of a large medical center. Charlie has an ability to learn any skill or knowledge upon one reading of someone else’s work. He volunteers to have his thinking skills enhanced by being given the intelligence of an average person, but instead gets a cat named Algernon.

The story follows Charlie's transformation from an intellectual loner to a fully integrated member of society. This quote is about how you should never give up on your dreams for your dreams are always worth pursuing.

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