R. J. Palacio Quotes

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Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

R. J. Palacio
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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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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Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.

R. J. Palacio
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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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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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

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Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

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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?

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It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night. Like on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. This and the day Daisy died. But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or may be it was even a good day. May be somebody won the lottery today.

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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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