Auggie Quotes

#1. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Julia Alvarez

#2. A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.

C. G. Jung

#4. Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#5. Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?

Dennis Lehane

#6. Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. When, in this way, the principles are entirely annihilated, all everyday practices are made enjoyable, because they are not deliberated.

Jayarasi BhaTTa

#8. Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

Patrick DeWitt

#9. She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

John Green

#10. Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

Steven Magee

#11. There are always going to be jerks in the world, Auggie," she said, looking at me. "But I really believe, and Daddy really believes, that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other. Just

R.J. Palacio

#12. I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

Wangari Maathai

#13. AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world.
Auggie

R.J. Palacio

#14. I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

George Jones

#15. There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. I've never touched Auggie Pullman, it's only because I've never had a reason to - that's all!) Nobody

R.J. Palacio

#17. I believe with all my heart that God is not done with America yet.

Marco Rubio

#18. How ya doin', Auggie? he'd always say, and

R.J. Palacio

#19. God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.

Thomas A Kempis