R.J. Palacio > Quotes

“You’re one brave little dude, you know that?” said Amos, putting his arm around my shoulders. And when I kept on crying, he put both his arms around me like my dad would have done and let me cry.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“...now that I know him, I would say I actually do want to be friends with August. At first, I admit it, I was only friendly to him because Mr. Tushman asked me to be especially nice and all that. But now I would choose to hang out with him. He laughs at all my jokes. And I kind of feel like I can tell August anything. Like he’s a good friend. Like, if all the guys in fifth grade were lined up against a wall and I got to choose anyone I wanted to hang out with, I would choose August.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Mas que obra prima é o homem! quão nobre a sua razão!quão infinitas as suas faculdades! quão imponente e admirável é na forma e nos movimentos! quão semelhante a um anjo nas ações! quão semelhante a um deus no entendimento! a beleza do mundo!...”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Julian Auguste Beaumier né le 10 de octobre 1930 tombé en juin 1944 Puisse-t-il toujours marcher le front haut dans le jardin de Dieu”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“It's not enough to be kind. We should be kinder than needed”
― R.J. Palacio

“reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“it’s funny how 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.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Parece que é verdade que as pessoas semelhantes se atraem.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“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.”
― R.J. Palacio

“The Empire Strikes Back? The bald guy with the cool bionic radio-transmitter thing that wraps around the back of his skull?”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“no, no, it’s not all random, if it really was all 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. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“nicknamed him the Zombie Kid, and that’s what everyone was calling him. “Did you see the Zombie Kid yet?” Stuff like that gets around fast. And August knew it. It’s hard enough being the new kid even when you have a normal face. Imagine having his face?”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“ginkgo”
― R.J. Palacio, Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

“Sometimes people surprise you. Never in a million years would I have thought my mom would be the one to back down from anything, so”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“Anyway, it’s not that I care that people react to me. Like I’ve said a gazillion times: I’m used to that by now. I don’t let it bother me. It’s like when you go outside and it’s drizzling a little. You don’t put on boots for a drizzle. You don’t even open your umbrella. You walk through it and barely notice your hair getting wet.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“而已。我们计划在市区碰头，但后来又不得不取消，因为”
― R.J. Palacio, 奇迹男孩

“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 as much. And Mom and Dad don’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.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“I’ve seen August after his surgeries: his little face bandaged up and swollen, his tiny body full of IVs and tubes to keep him alive. After you’ve seen someone else going through that, it feels kind of crazy to complain over not getting the toy you had asked for, or your mom missing a school play. I knew this even when I was six years old. No one ever told it to me. I just knew it.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“My worst day, worst fall, worst headache, worst bruise, worst cramp, worst mean thing anyone could say has always been nothing compared to what August has gone through.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“A Padawan is a Jedi apprentice.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“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.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Keep calm and carry on!”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“I think when people die, their souls go to heaven but just for a little while. Like that’s where they see their old friends and stuff, and kind of catch up on old times. But then I actually think the souls start thinking about their lives on earth, like if they were good or bad or whatever. And then they get born again as brand-new babies in the world.” “Why would they want to do that?” “Because then they get another chance to get it right,” I answered. “Their souls get a chance to have a do-over.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Why do I have to be so ugly, Mommy?” I whispered. “No, baby, you’re not …” “I know I am.” She kissed me all over my face. She kissed my eyes that came down too far. She kissed my cheeks that looked punched in. She kissed my tortoise mouth. She said soft words that I know were meant to help me, but words can’t change my face.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“This year I’m going to be Boba Fett: not Boba Fett the kid in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, but Boba Fett the man from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Mom searched everywhere for the costume but couldn’t find one in my size, so she bought me a Jango Fett costume—since Jango was Boba’s dad and wore the same armor—and then painted the armor green. She did some other stuff to it to make it look worn, too. Anyway, it looks totally real. Mom’s good at costumes.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“can’t control it. When you’re scared, you’re scared. And when you’re scared, everything seems scarier than it ordinarily would be—even things that aren’t.”
― R.J. Palacio, Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

“Be kind to nature”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“even though she changed the skies to light blue on the photos, all I ever really remembered about our Hawaii trip was how cold and wet it was when we were there—despite the magic of Photoshop.”
― R.J. Palacio, Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

“Ten”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“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. This is what I mean when I say you made a mistake.”
― R.J. Palacio, Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories