R. J. Palacio Quotes
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My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
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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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I wish everyday 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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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
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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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That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
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You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
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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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If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
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I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
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You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.
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One mistake does not define you.
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Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.
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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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Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
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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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Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.
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Don’t be friends with jerks.
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It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
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We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
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Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
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Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?