Top 200 R. J. Palacio Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Success does not come through grades, degrees or distinctions. It comes through experiences that expand your belief in what is possible” -Matea.”

— R. J. Palacio

152. “Its the shingaling, baby!”

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153. “Thank you for making me go to school,” I said quietly. She hugged me close and leaned down and kissed the top of my head. “Thank you, Auggie,” she answered softly. “For what?” “For everything you’ve given us,” she said. “For coming into our lives. For being you.” She bent down and whispered in my ear. “You really are a wonder, Auggie. You are a wonder.”

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154. “The galaxy is changing. Planets are falling out of alignment.”

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155. “Another was: You’re a babe. Tickle my feet. XO Beulah.”

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156. “You see, it is not just that he saved my life. He saved my very being. My hope. My... light.” -Grandmere.”

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157. “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.”

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158. “Naciste original, no te conviertas en una copia.”

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159. “Yo, Darth Hideous. You’re so ugly you should wear a mask every day! And: I h8 u, Freak! And the last one: I bet your mother wishes you’d never been born. You should do everybody a favor – and die. Of.”

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160. “Via. I can’t say I always wanted to go to school because that wouldn’t be exactly true. What I wanted was to go to school, but only if I could be like every other kid going to school. Have lots of friends and hang out after school and stuff like that. I have a few really good friends now. Christopher is my best.”

— R. J. Palacio

161. “The Empire Strikes Back? The bald guy with the cool bionic radio-transmitter thing that wraps around the back of his skull?”

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162. “When I look at Auggie and all the challenges he has to face on a daily basis,” he said, patting his heart. “I’m in awe of how he manages to simply show up every day. With a smile on his face. And I want him to have validation that this year was a triumph for him. That he’s made an impact. I mean, the way the kids rallied around him after the horrible incident at the nature reserve? It was because of him. He inspired that kindness in them.”

— R. J. Palacio

163. “Fala agora, ou cala-te para sempre.”

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164. “Then they came out of the narrow valley and at once she saw the reason. There stood Peter and Edmund and all the rest of Aslan’s army fighting desperately against the crowd of horrible creatures whom she had seen last night; only now, in the daylight, they looked even stranger and more evil and more deformed.”

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165. “Not just the front rows, but the whole audience suddenly got up on their feet, whooping, hollering, clapping like crazy. It was a standing ovation. For me.”

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166. “Algunas veces es bueno volver a empezar.”

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167. “His eyes are about an inch below where they should be on his face, almost to halfway down his cheeks.”

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168. “And being at school was awful in the beginning. Every new class I had was like a new chance for kids to “not stare” at me. They would sneak peeks at me from behind their notebooks or when they thought I wasn’t looking. They would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious.”

— R. J. Palacio

169. “Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists.”

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170. “They were a gloomy party that night, and the gloom gathered still deeper on them in the following days. They had crossed the enchanted stream; but beyond it the path seemed to straggle on just as before, and in the forest they could see no change.”

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171. “He’s just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I’ve ever seen, yes. But just a kid.”

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172. “But realizing that Ximena Chin, under her layers and layers and layers of snarkiness and mischief, could actually be kind of sweet. When she wasn’t being kind of mean.”

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173. “One thing I’ve learned after being a middle-school director for twenty years: there are almost always more than two sides to every story. Although I don’t know the details, I have an inkling about what may have sparked the confrontation with Julian. While nothing justifies striking another student – ever – I also know good friends are sometimes worth defending.”

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174. “But every Spring It groweth young again, And fairies sing. – Flower Fairies of the Spring, 1923.”

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175. “Mrs. G, who was crying hysterically – a happy crying – smiling and clapping the whole time.”

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176. “And then all of a sudden she let out the biggest, loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts. Mom.”

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177. “Your best takes your time” -Thomas.”

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178. “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 should be asking ourselves all the time? “What kind of person am I?”

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179. “I couldn’t wait to go home.”

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180. “Olivia is a girl who sees everything.”

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181. “Jeg tror, at den eneste i hele verden, der er klar over, hvor normal jeg er, er mig selv.”

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182. “She picked up a different photo from the nightstand and handed it to me to look at. At first, I thought it was just another copy of the class picture, because it was exactly the same size as the class picture Dad had in his hands, and everything in it was exactly the same. I started to look away in disgust, but Mom pointed to a place on the photo – the place where Auggie used to be! He was nowhere in the photo.”

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183. “The point is we all have to put up with the bad days. Now, unless you want to be treated like a baby the rest of your life, or like a kid with special needs, you just have to suck it up and go.”

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184. “The auditorium was huge inside. Big sparkly chandeliers. Red velvet walls. Rows and rows and rows of cushioned seats leading up to the giant stage.”

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185. “What’s cool about really little kids is that they don’t say stuff to try to hurt your feelings, even though sometimes they do say stuff that hurts your feelings.”

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186. “If you have a choice of being right or kind, choose kind.”

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187. “Jill wants to buy honey at an outdoor market. One vendor is selling a twenty-six-ounce jar for $3.12. Another vendor is selling a sixteen-ounce jar for $2.40. Which is the better deal, and how much money per ounce will Jill save by choosing it?”

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188. “My mother is the kind of person who has a happy face for the rest of the world but not a lot left over for me.”

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189. “Via had warned me about lunch in middle school, so I guess I should have known it would be hard.”

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190. “But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that’s okay. I’ll take it.”

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191. “It’s so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not. Where did she go? Will I really ever see her again, or is that a fairy tale?”

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

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193. “As I wrote down Mr. Browne’s September precept, I suddenly realized that I was going to like school. No matter what.”

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194. “That’s when I saw Daisy sitting near my bed. I mean, I knew it wasn’t Daisy, but for a second I saw a shadow that looked just like her. I didn’t think it was a dream then, but now, looking back, I know it must have been. It didn’t make me sad to see her at all: it just filled me up with nice feelings inside. She was gone after a second, and I couldn’t see her again in the darkness. The.”

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195. “Auggie, Mom’s taken her to the vet like three times in the last two months. She’s been throwing up left and right. Haven’t you noticed?” “But I didn’t know she was sick!” Via didn’t say anything, but she put her arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer to her. I started to cry again.”

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196. “I guess I thought he would have a huge butt, but he didn’t.”

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197. “Sometimes kids don’t even know they’re leaders until they start to lead” -Mr. Browne.”

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198. “Except Savanna’s group, because they’re going out with Julian’s group.”

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199. “Mom and Dad came home two hours later. We knew the second they opened the door and Daisy wasn’t with them that Daisy was gone.”

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200. “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.”

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