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41 " Things worth having are worth working for. "
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree
42 " I have both too many words and not enough. He nods slowly. “Well,” he says. “I’m glad you’re not invisible, Ally. Because this class wouldn’t be the same without you.” I don’t believe him, but it makes me happy he said it. I realize looking at him that, all this time, I haven’t been looking teachers in the face. I’ve been staring into their stomachs while "
43 " sit at my desk and they tell me the things that are wrong "
44 " they tell me the things that are wrong "
45 " Be yourself. Be who you are. "
46 " You made a mistake. Everyone does. Just do your best to make it right, that’s all. The words ‘I’m sorry’ are powerful ones. "
47 " ..what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school -- when he didn't have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they need to. "
48 " Reading for me is like when I drop something and my fingers scramble to catch it and just when I think I’ve got it, I don’t. If trying to read helped, I’d be a genius. "
49 " After they leave, I look at the three of us and think about how there are three primary colors. Yellow, blue, and red. Those three colors create every other color ever. "
50 " 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.’” I "
51 " What do you like, then?” “Buffalo wings,” I say. He laughs a little. “What do you like about school?” “Leaving.” He "
52 " A lady talks about what a visionary Noah Webster was to create the first American spellers and dictionaries. Before that, people used to just make up spellings—there were no right or wrong ways to spell. "
53 " You made a mistake .Everyone does. Just do your best to make it right , that's all. The words "I'm sorry "are powerful ones. "
54 " Albert Einstein. But did you know that he was kicked out of school when he was young? His report card said that he was too slow to amount to anything. He couldn’t memorize the months of the year. In fact, he had trouble tying his shoes. But . . . he was and remains one of the greatest minds we’ve ever seen. "
55 " most experts now believe that they had dyslexia. But, of course, we know their struggles weren’t because they were stupid. It’s just that their minds worked differently. And thank goodness they did, because otherwise we may not have telephones or lightbulbs or stunning works of art. "
56 " should be used to this, but it still takes a piece out of me every time. "
57 " silent. I wonder what it would be like to be able to relax at school and not have to worry every second of every minute. "
58 " And then I decide that the craziest, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever draw is me doing something right. "
59 " invincible "
60 " It’s not "