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“The best way to be understood is to learn and speak someone else's language.”

Empathy Getting Along

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do.”

Relationships Family

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“You don't deserve to be seen or heard, to take up room, to be noticed. Make yourself small." "I deserve to be seen. To be noticed. To be heard. To be treated like a human. I starfish. There's plenty of room for each and every one of us in the world.”

Inspirational Deep

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want.”

Space Confidence Room Starfish

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“It's kinda like how you take one step after another, climbing the ladder to a slide. Some people's ladder have lots of steps. Others just a few. But there's always one final step, and then, you're sitting at the top of the slide, and all you can do is hold on tight. 'Cause once you slip over the edge, BOOM! There's no stopping until you reach the bottom.”

Author:Lisa Fipps

“As soon as I slip into the pool, I am weightless. Limitless. For just a while.”

Poetry Middle Grade Starfish In Verse

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's unknown how many students' lives librarians have saved by welcoming loners at lunch.”

Wanted Welcome Lunch Librarians Loners Saved A Life

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“The secret to surviving childhood so far has been knowing when to keep my mouth shut. But I am not a child anymore. I have feelings. have thoughts. have the right to express them both.”

Feelings Rights Expression Survival Child Teen Tweens Preteen Not A Child

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“The library is my safe harbor since I dare not go into the cafeteria alone, a whale surrounded by starving sharks.”

Library Safe Haven Safe Space Safe Harbor

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“Stereotypes stink. They give people an excuse to hate people who are different instead of taking the time to get to know them.”

Different Hate Stereotypes

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to understand why they feel that way.”

Friendship Grief Poverty Students Resilience Homelessness Middle Grade

Book:And Then, Boom!

Source: And Then, Boom!