140 Quotes by R. J. Palacio

If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!

Flowers are great, but love is better. – Justin Bieber.

The things you did, you know they were not right. But that does not mean you are not capable of doing right. It only means that you chose to do wrong.

Now that I look back, I don’t know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.

What’s cool about really little kids is that they don’t say stuff to try to hurt your feelings, even though sometimes they do say stuff that hurts your feelings. But they don’t actually know what they’re saying. Big kids, though: they know what they’re saying. And that is definitely not fun for me.

Teachers need the freedom to teach – freedom they can’t have if they’re only teaching so their students can pass tests. I’m pretty sure my students won’t find anything about Hector on the Common Core tests. I’m equally sure that what they learned about Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Temperance may stay with them for the rest of their lives. – Mr. Browne.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

In these dark times, it’s those small acts of kindness that keep us alive, after all. They remind us of our humanity” -Vivienne.

When I talk to parents who tell me, as a way of justifying something unkind their child has done, ‘What can I do? Kids will be kids,” it’s all I can do not to bop them on their heads with a friendship bracelet.” -Mr. Browne.