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believe in children and their limitless capacity to care and to love and to want to save the world. I have no doubt that they will lead us to a place of greater tolerance and acceptance for all the birds in the universe. For all the underdogs and misfits. And for Auggie and me.
If you don’t know what to do, just be kind. You can’t go wrong.
That’s the thing about being scared, though. You can’t control it. When you’re scared, you’re scared. And when you’re scared, everything seems scarier than it ordinarily would be—even things that aren’t. Everything that scares you kind of mushes together to become this big, terrifying feeling. It’s like you’re covered in this blanket of fear, and this blanket is made out of broken glass and dog poop and oozy pus and bloody zombie zits.
One mistake does not define you, Julian. Do you understand me? You must simply act better next time.”
Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!”
“Good friendships are worth a little extra effort,”
“Being nice is the first step toward being kind. It’s a pretty awesome start. I’m supremely proud of you, Charlotte.” Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn’t, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.
