The first day I showed up at school with the hearing aids I thought kids would make a big deal about it. But no one did Summer was glad I could hear better, and Jack said it made melook like an FBI agent or something. But that was it. Mr. Browne asked me about it in English class, but it wasn‘t like, what the heck is that thing on your head?! It was more like, "If youever need me to repeat something, Auggie, make sure you tellme, okay?"
Now that I look back, I don‘t know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing. - P215
I loved hanging out by the campfire after dark. I loved the bits of fire dust would float up and disappear into the night air. And how the fire lit up people‘s faces. I loved the sound the fire made, too. And how the woods were so dark that you couldn‘t see anything around you, and you‘d look up and see abillion stars in the sky. The sky doesn‘t look like that in NorthRiver Heights. I‘ve seen it look like that in Montauk, though:like someone sprinkled salt on a shiny black table.
I was so tired when I got back to the cabin that I didn‘t needto pull out the book to read. I fell asleep almost as fast as my headhit the pillow. And maybe I dreamed about the stars, I don‘t know. - P258
When we got to the fairgrounds, the sun was just starting to set. It was about seven-thirty. The shadows were really longon the grass, and the clouds were pink and orange. It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colorsacross the sky with their fingers. It‘s not that I haven‘t seen nicesunsets before in the city, because I have-slivers of sunsetsbetween buildings-but I wasn‘t used to seeing so much sky inevery direction. Out here in the fairgrounds, I could understand why ancient people used to think the world was flat and the skywas a dome that closed in on top of it. That‘s what it looked likefrom the fairgrounds, in the middle of this huge open field. - P259
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