"Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better."

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Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

R. J. Palacio

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“The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.”
“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”
“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
“Home is where the heartache is.”
“Food simply isn't important to me.”
“I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.”

Source : "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.
“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.”
“I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.”

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