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“We’re leaving together But still it’s farewell And maybe we’ll come back To Earth, who can tell I guess there is no one to blame We’re leaving ground Will things ever be the same again? It’s the final countdown. . . .”
― R.J. Palacio, Pluto: A Wonder Story

“I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“AUGUST IS THE Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun. The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Katy came to meet them as they entered. Not on her feet: that, alas! was still only a far-off possibility; but in a chair with large wheels, with which she was rolling herself across the room.”
― Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did