"Via, it‘s okay. I know what I‘m doing. I‘ve made up my mind."
"But this is crazy, Auggie!" I said emphatically, pulling the new comic book away from him, too. "You have to go back to school. Everyone hates school sometimes. I hate school sometimes. I hate friends sometimes. That‘s just life, Auggie. You want to be treated normally, right? This is normal! We all have to go to school sometimes despite the fact that we have bad days, okay?"
"Do people go out of their way to avoid touching you, Via?" he answered, which left me momentarily without an answer. "Yeah, right. That‘s what I thought. So don‘t compare your bad days at school to mine, okay?"
"Okay, that‘s fair," I said. "But it‘s not a contest about whose days suck the most, Auggie. The point is we all have to put up with the bad days. Now, unless you want to be treated like a baby the rest ofyour life, or like a kid with special needs, you just have to suck it up and go."
He didn‘t say anything, but I think that last bit was getting to him. - P115