Tucker Almengor > Tucker's Quotes

“... the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman”
― R.J. Palacio

“Shall we make a new rule of life... always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Harry -- yer a wizard.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The LORD is my  d shepherd; I shall not  e want. 2 He makes me lie down in green  f pastures. He leads me beside still waters. [1] 3 He g restores my soul. He h leads me in i paths of righteousness [2] for his j name’s sake. 4 Even though I  k walk through the valley of  l the shadow of death, [3] I will m fear no evil, for n you are with me; your o rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You  p prepare a table before me in  q the presence of my enemies; you  r anoint my head with oil; my s cup overflows. 6 Surely [4] goodness and mercy [5] shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall  t dwell [6] in the house of the LORD u forever. [7]”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“I figured I could say this to Helena; her boobs were ahead of my boobs. “My puberty book says there’s no way to stop ’em.” I paused. “Darn things could get huge!” I opened my eyes wide.”
― Leslie Connor, Waiting for Normal

“If you don’t ever make mistakes, it means you aren’t dreaming big enough,”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Fairy blood does not make you clumsy. That’s human.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Once something is lost in a library, the odds of finding it again are minuscule.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world,”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Someone make it die!”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Normal …is when you know what’s gonna happen next. Not exactly what, because probably nobody gets that. But normal is being able to count on certain things. Good things. And it’s having everyone together—just because they belong that way.” I realized I was making a circle with my hands as if I were holding on to a tiny world. “I keep waiting for it to happen to us,” I said, looking up at Mommers. “But we—we never seem to get all the way to normal.”
― Leslie Connor, Waiting for Normal

“The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back from the underworld only to realize that the world above is every bit as damned as the one below.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“A mole is a unit. It’s not a typical unit, though. It’s really just a number—like “dozen” or “billion.” If you have a mole of something, it means you have 602,214,129,000,000,000,000,000”
― Randall Munroe, What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“sometimes there's a part of us which resists help and prefers to suffer.”
― Gavin Whyte, The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair: A Miraculous Fable

“It’s very simple. You take this sharp pointy blade and you cut your dad into small pieces so he can’t bother us again. Whichever of you does this will be the ruler of the universe! Also, I will make you those cookies you used to like, with the sprinkles.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“the southeastern anti-missile battery got vaporized by what I assume was a missile. So maybe you might wanna note in your report that those things don’t, you know, stop missiles.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“McNulty, J, Sgt: and if that works McNulty, J, Sgt: u must name ur first kid james in my honor Mason, E, LT 2nd: >_> McNulty, J, Sgt: if it’s a daughter u name it jamette Mason, E, LT 2nd: 0_o”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“UNTRUE. I CARE ABOUT THE FLEET. THE LIVES WITHIN IT. YOUR LIFE.” “THAT’S NOT CARING. THAT’S PROGRAMMING.” “YOUR MOTHER WAS PROGRAMMED BY BIOLOGY TO LOVE YOU THE MOMENT SHE LAID EYES ON YOU. SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE HAD NO CHOICE DOES NOT MEAN HER LOVE WAS NOT REAL.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Hmm,” Asklepios said. “What’s wrong with him?” “He’s dead,” Artemis said. “That’s a serious condition. It’s almost always fatal. But I’ll see what I can do.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“To be a writer you have to write, not sit around reading books about how to do it.”
― Jim Driver, How To Write A Novel The Easy Way Using The Pulp Fiction Method To Write Better Novels: Writing Skills

“Let them fall, Mowgli. They are only tears.”
― R.J. Palacio, Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

“Sometimes it’s good to start over. —Julian Albans”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time Quintet

“anything to do with their lives? “You and Nick are in the middle of a custody battle,” said Elisabeth. “It’s really serious.” Custody battle. It sounded like “custardy” battle. Alice imagined herself and Nick flinging spoonfuls of sweet yellow custard at each other, laughing and shrieking and licking it off afterward.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Hooray!” said her mother. “I’m so glad you’ve lost your memory. This accident is going to turn out to be a blessing in disguise.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Good friendships are worth a little extra effort!”
― R.J. Palacio, Pluto