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“I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says. "Yeah, I agree," said August. "Which is kind of a shame, you know what with all those babes who keep throwing themselves at me and stuff?”

Humor Wonder Dating Young Love R J Palacio

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“I had always assumed he was weak. It had never occurred to me that all those years of using his crutches had given him a different kind of strength.”

Strength Disability Strength Through Adversity

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“Dad always managed to make everyone laugh. And sometimes that's all you need to feel better”

Sadness Laugh Fathers

Author:R.J. Palacio

“I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.”

Wisdom Ordinary

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.”

Friendship Humanism Acceptance Of Others

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“You see, Julian, it always takes courage to be kind. But in those days, when such kindness could cost you everything - your freedom, your life - Kindness becomes a miracle. It becomes that light in the darkness that Papa talked about, the very essence of our humanity. It is hope.”

Humanity Kindness Miracle

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“In these dark times, it’s those small acts of kindness that keep us alive, after all. They remind us of our humanity.”

Humanity Kindness Small Acts Of Kindness

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?" "I don't know. I don't think so." "Then how do people recognize each other?" "I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?”

Love Death Heaven Wonder

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“Quello che è forte, dei bambini piccoli, è che non dicono le cose con l’intenzione di ferire, anche se poi lo fanno. È che non sanno veramente quello che dicono. I ragazzi grandi no: loro lo sanno, quello che dicono.”

Life Lessons Inspirational Life Truth Quotes

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“TUS ACTOS SON TUS MONUMENTOS. Este precepto significa que se nos debería recordar por las cosas que hacemos. Las cosas que hacemos son las cosas más importantes de todas. Son más importantes que lo que decimos o que nuestro aspecto. Las cosas que hacemos duran más que nuestras vidas. Las cosas que hacemos son como los monumentos que la gente construye para honrar a los héroes cuando ya han muerto. Son como las pirámides que construyeron los egipcios para honrar a los faraones. Pero en lugar de estar hechas de piedra, las cosass que hacemos están hechas de los recuerdos que la gente tiene de ti. Por eso tus actos son como tus monumentos. Están construidos con recuerdos y no con piedra.”

Inspirational Life

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.”

Inspirational Book Kindness

Author:R.J. Palacio

“If every single 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 a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”

Inspirational Kindness

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.”

Love Home Wonder Protection Children S Lit Rj Palacio

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“I've been in enough playgrounds to know kids can be mean. I know, I know, I know”

Mean Children Kids Bullying Bully

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“It’s kind of funny how parents actually end up forming the same little groups their kids form.”

Kids Groups Parents

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“surprise is one of those emotions that can be hard to fake, though, whether you're trying to look surprised when you're not or trying to not look surprised when you are.”

Emotions Surprise

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“Even if we can’t see it, the sun never stops shining.”

Inspirational Sun Pony

Book:Pony

Source: Pony

“When I say I think you’re brave, it’s not because of your crutches. It’s because of everything you’re risking to help me.”

Bravery Selflessness

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“... we carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness. (Mr. Tushman)”

Being Kind Kindess Choose Kind Choose To Be Kind

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“I love it when I'm the one who makes Dad laugh, since he's usually the funnyman that gets everybody else laughing”

Fatherhood Parents Love

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“I pictured hope as a candle that needed to keep burning, no matter what.”

Hope Hope In The Dark

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“No todo depende del azar, si todo dependiera del azar, el universo nos abandonaría por completo y el universo no nos abandona, cuida de sus creaciones mas frágiles de un modo invisible. Quizá sea una lotería, pero el universo acaba compensándolo, el universo cuida de todos sus pájaros.”

Problems Universo

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face' -Olivia/Via thinking”

Wonder Thoughts Olivia Via

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“Quando ti viene data la possibilità di scegliere se avere ragione o essere gentile, scegli di essere gentile.”

Altruismo Gentilezza

Author:R.J. Palacio

“Palavras gentis não custam muito, e ainda assim conquistam muito.”

Author:R.J. Palacio

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”

Inspirational Dreams

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“La sorpresa è un’emozione difficile da camuffare, sia quando stai cercando di sembrare sorpreso e invece non lo sei, sia quando stai cercando di non sembrare sorpreso e invece lo sei.”

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder

“We are not defined by our mistakes, but by what we do after we've learned from them.”

Book:White Bird

Source: White Bird

“But the good thing about life is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better.”

Life Inspirational Mistakes

Book:The Julian Chapter

Source: The Julian Chapter

“Do people look the same when they get to heaven?" "I don't know. I don't think so." "Then how do people recognize each other?" "I don't know, sweetie."She sounded tired."They just feel it.You don't need your eyes to love,right? You just feel it inside you. That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.”

Love Heaven Blind

Book:Wonder

Source: Wonder