...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.
R.J. PalacioFunny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
R.J. PalacioJack, sometimes you don't have to be mean to hurt someone.
R.J. PalacioA 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. PalacioHer smile hugged me
R.J. PalacioI wasn't even sure why I was getting this medal, really.
No, that's not true. I knew why.
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.
To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.
But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that's okay. I'll take it. I didn't destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. And that's not easy, even if you're not me.
HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPT
Don't be friends with jerks.
AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
I did notice as I walked that Amos had stayed right next to me. And Jack was close on the other side of me. And Miles was in front of us and Henry was in back of us. They were surrounding me as we walked through the crowds of kids. Like I had my own emperor's guard.
R.J. PalacioUnd ich werde nie einer von diesen Erwachsenen sein, die einen Schirm benutzen, wenn es schneit - niemals.
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