Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better. R. J. Palacio More Quotes by R. J. Palacio More Quotes From R. J. Palacio It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night. Like on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. This and the day Daisy died. But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or may be it was even a good day. May be somebody won the lottery today. R. J. Palacio good-day home night Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong. R. J. Palacio giants mouths trying It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. R. J. Palacio ordinary kids people It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend. R. J. Palacio enough friendly A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet. R. J. Palacio big-sister girl kids Don’t be friends with jerks. R. J. Palacio jerk Just follow the day and reach for the sun! R. J. Palacio sun Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. R. J. Palacio hurt sometimes mean That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love. R. J. Palacio forget heaven Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in. R. J. Palacio goodness spiritual believe I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing. R. J. Palacio tortoises swamps eating The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. R. J. Palacio egyptian-pyramids hero memories
