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> [“And being at school was awful in the beginning. Every new class I had was like a new chance for kids to “not stare” at me. They would sneak peeks at me from behind their notebooks or when they thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-j-palacio/and-being-at-school-was-awful-in-the-beginning-every-new-class-i-had/)

[R.J. Palacio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-j-palacio/)

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> [“I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-fowles/i-felt-like-a-germ-that-had-landed-like-the-first-penicillin-microbe/)

[John Fowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-fowles/)

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