R.J.Palacio

drool all over her.

a lamb to the slaughter …

Dad was the one person in the world who could make me laugh no matter how much I didn’t want to laugh. Dad always made everyone laugh.

I wasn’t in the mood to stay mad anymore.

had blue eyes with white eyelashes. “

liked his office a lot. I liked that there were all these neat little drawings and paintings by students on the walls, framed like they were important.

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.

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don’t want to see.

know all the ins and outs of the middle-school program

It wasn’t my favorite subject on account of the fact that I don’t really have ears. Well, I do, but they don’t exactly look like normal ears.