R. J. Palacio Quotes
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My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
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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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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
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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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That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
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Don’t be friends with jerks.
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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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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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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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One mistake does not define you.
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You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
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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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We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
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There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] 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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Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.
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Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
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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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It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
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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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You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.
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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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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?
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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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Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.