Top 100 R J Palacio Quotes
#1. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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#3. I was looking for a little tiny spot to disappear into. I wanted a hole I could fall inside of: a little black hole that would eat me up.
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#4. Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
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#5. There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.
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#6. I opened the box. Inside was the cutest little puppy I've ever seen in my life. It was black and furry, with a pointy little snout and bright black eyes and small ears that flopped down.
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#7. Olivia's family tell each other "i love you" all the time. i can't remember the last time anyone in my family said that to me.
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#8. If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone's feelings, that's really cool beans.
-Summer Dawson
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#9. The things you did, you know they were not right. But that does not mean you are not capable of doing right. It only means that you chose to do wrong.
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#11. One mistake does not define you, Julian. Do you understand me? You must simply act better next time.
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#12. My hope is, as we start sixth grade, as we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. Thank you. How I Finally Introduced Myself I
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#13. Hey hey, I know!" said Dad excitedly. "Let's fix them up on a blind date! Can you imagine? Miss Butt, meet Mr. Tushman. Mr. Tushman, here's Miss Butt. They could get married and have a bunch of little Tushies.
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#14. Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.
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#15. I felt very sad and a tiny bit happy at the exact same time, kind
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#16. My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
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#17. The truth of the matter is this: there's so much nobility lurking inside your souls. Our job as parents, and educators, and teachers, is to nurture it, to bring it out, and to let it shine. - Mr. Browne
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#18. She said soft words that I know were meant to help me, but words can't change my face
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#19. Sometimes when I have the feeling like I'm almost crying, it can turn into an almost-laughing feeling.
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#20. when I was about eleven, I went to stay with Grans in Montauk for four weeks while August was having his big jaw surgery.
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#21. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future.
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#24. We were just not good enough to play by ourselves.
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#25. When it's dark, be the one who turns on the light.
- Joseph, Age 9, Brooklyn, New York, November 29
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#26. By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it's good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future. If we don't examine the past, we don't learn from it.
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#28. Oh, you know me, Jules," she answered. "I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!" Much
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#29. Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
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#31. AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world.
Auggie
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#32. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.
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#33. There's no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it's always better to err on the side of kindness. That's the secret. If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.
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#34. Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.
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#35. If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
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#36. It's not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
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#37. It was only then that I realized that poor Ms. Rubin's blouse and skirt were completely covered in my blood.
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#38. The galaxy is changing. Planets are falling out of alignment.
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#39. We would spend hours playing pretend games about missions to deep space, or landing on Pluto. That became our favorite planet to travel to. Pluto was our Tatooine. We
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#40. Jack, sometimes you don't have to be mean to hurt someone.
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#41. Mr. Browne's precept for October was: YOUR DEEDS ARE YOUR MONUMENTS.
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#42. If you have a choice of being right or kind, choose kind.
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#43. As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are.
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#44. I've learned that life is like a book. Sometimes we must close a chapter and begin the next one.
- Hanz, Age 13, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 8
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#45. Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world.
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#46. I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.
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#47. Tushman asked me to hang out with him at the beginning of the year, and he must have told all the teachers to put us next to each other in all our classes, or something. The
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#48. Chewbacca are being applauded for destroying the Death Star. I could almost
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#49. 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
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#50. Jack, sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. You understand?
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#53. My birthday is October 10. I like my birthday: 10/10. It would've been great if I'd been born at exactly 10:10 in the morning or at night, but I wasn't. I was born just after midnight. But I still thinking my birthday is cool.
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#54. In fact, no one seemed to care about what happened to him in the least,
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#55. AUGUST IS THE Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.
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#56. that sometimes marriages are like friendships that get tested, and people have to work through things.
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#57. The first look I got of August, well, it made me want to cover my eyes and run away screaming.
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#58. No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn't. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see.
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#60. Everyone born of God overcometh the world.
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#61. sometimes he would wake up choking on his own saliva if he accidentally turned over on his back.
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#63. We're leaving together But still it's farewell And maybe we'll come back To Earth, who can tell I guess there is no one to blame We're leaving ground Will things ever be the same again? It's the final countdown. . . .
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#64. Oh wow, there's another fly on the wall! Look, there's a new dog sleeping on the sidewalk. Yippee.
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#65. Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
"Then how do people recognize each other?"
"I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?
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#66. I kind of wanted to tell them that. Like, it's okay, I know I'm weird-looking, take a look, I don't bite. Hey, the truth is, if a Wookiee started going to the school all of a sudden, I'd be curious, I'd probably stare a bit!
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#67. Doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing They say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as they can see they can offer no explanation - NATALIE MERCHANT,
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#68. I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
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#71. Things that happen to us, even the bad stuff, can often teach us a little bit about ourselves.
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#73. Shall we make a new rule of life ... Always try to be a little kinder than us necessary? ['The little white bird' by JM Barrie]
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#74. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
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#75. Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle ... - Natalie Merchant,
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#76. 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.
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#77. Being nice is the first step toward being kind. It's a pretty awesome start.
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#78. Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.
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#79. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
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#82. Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn't, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.
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#83. A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.
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#84. Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
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#85. And then all of a sudden she let out the biggest, loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts. Mom
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#86. I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
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#87. It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colors across the sky with their fingers.
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#88. Olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.
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#89. we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. When
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#90. Swallowing, there were other things that didn't come automatically to him. For instance, he couldn't eat. He couldn't talk. He
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#92. Mom and Dad came home two hours later. We knew the second they opened the door and Daisy wasn't with them that Daisy was gone.
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#93. Or maybe it's just that teachers hear everything. When
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#94. Via doesn't see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn't feel like she needs to protect me that much. And mom and dad doesn't see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.
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#95. Or, what does a poor man have, a rich man need, and you would die if you ate it? Stuff
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#97. One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don't want to see.
-August thinking
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#98. JULIAN ALBANS'S PRECEPT Sometimes it's good to start over. - Julian Albans
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#99. It's so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.
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#100. When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer
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