"Learning who you are is what you're here to do."

--

Source : R J Palacio (2012). “Wonder”, p.47, Random House

R. J. Palacio

#Who You Are Quotes

“We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.”
“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.”
“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
“I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.”
“I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,”
“See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.”
“Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?”
“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”

You may also like: