Rj Palacio Wonder Quotes

#1. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

Mason Cooley

#3. 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.

R.J. Palacio

#4. What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

Agatha Christie

#5. Son draws comics of Mongolian invasions and the Civil Rights Movement -

Adam Johnson

#6. Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.

R.J. Palacio

#7. Clever women are hard to intimidate.

Jeffrey Perren

#8. He managed a single laugh. "Who would have thought from the first time we met that we'd be sitting here? You couldn't have told me three months ago that I'd be this miserable over saying goodbye to a girl."
My stomach sank. "I don't want you to be miserable."
"Then don't go.

Jamie McGuire

#9. To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. "You

Julie Murphy

#10. It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Joe Cocker

#11. Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

David Halberstam

#12. Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

Ingrid Weir

#13. The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

Samantha Power