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1 " Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. "
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree
2 " But most of all, I'll remember how she loved me. I turn away, knowing that I might never get to see Julie Murphy again. But I will know her for the rest of my life. "
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , One for the Murphys
3 " Rain, rain falling downDown, down on the goundAll the birds go in the treesThey don't like the rain, you see. "
4 " One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out. All three of us. You wait and see. You're going to be a famous artist and Albert is going to cure cancer or invent talking fish or something. "
5 " I'm only different to the people who see with the wrong eyes. "
6 " There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Strawberry, pistachio, black raspberry. Pink, green, and purple. I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Maybe melting rivers of it. And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a babana split dish rowing with a spoon. "
7 " We've both changed. We're tired of having the world push us into places we don't want to be. We're both scared of losing love that maybe we never had to being with. We can have whatever we want in our lives. It's only a matter of deciding. But we don't have to do it alone. We have each other. "
8 " So instead I stare at the steaming liquid dripping into a coffeepot and start thinking of steaming volcanoes. And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is. "
9 " Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid. "
10 " Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway. "
11 " Well…alone is a way to be. It’s being by yourself with no one else around. And it can be good or bad. And it can be a choice…. But being lonely is never a choice. It’s not about who is with you or not. You can feel lonely when you are alone, but the worst kind of lonely is when you’re in a room full of people, but you’re still alone. Or you feel like you are anyway. "
12 " You say that you'll grow up to be nobody. But logically.. if nobody's perfect... well then, you must be perfect. "
13 " I guess sometimes you don't know what you want because you don't know it exists. "
14 " One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out" -Keisha "
15 " An older brother is older. A big brother looks out for you and smiles when you walk into a room. "
16 " All these gifts you have, Carley. All these gifts you have." -pg. 157 "
17 " I feel like the things I should say are the things I can't say. And the things I could say are the things I shouldn't say. "
18 " maybe “I’m having trouble” is not the same as “I can’t. "
19 " Sometimes I wonder. On the pathetic scale, where would I land? I know other kids my age would go to the mall if they cut school, but I'm off to the library. "
20 " You regret the things you don't do more than the things you do. "
