[마이리뷰] Wonder

Wonder (Paperback, 미국판, International Edition) - 『아름다운 아이』원서
R. J. Palacio / Random House USA Inc / 2014년 6월

Does August see how other people see him, or has he gotten so good at pretending not to see that it doesn‘t bother him? Or does it bother him? When he looks in the mirror, does he see the Auggie Mom and Dad see, or does he see the Auggie everyone else sees? Or is there another August he sees, someone in his dreams behind the misshapen head and face? Sometimes when I looked at Grans, I could see the pretty girl she used to be underneath the wrinkles. I could see the girl from Ipanema inside the old-lady walk. Does August see himself as he might have looked without that single gene that caused the catastrophe of his face? - p.89

˝It was bad how we did that,˝ she said. ˝Just getting up like that, like we‘d just seen the devil. I was scared for what Jamie was going to say, you know? I didn‘t want him to say anything that would hurt that little boy‘s feelings. But it was very bad, us leaving like that. The momma knew what was going on.˝
˝But we didn‘t mean it,˝ I answered.
˝Jack, sometimes you don‘t have to mean to hurt someone. You understand?˝ - p.137

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she‘s mad. and when she‘s fragile like this, she‘s a little lost bird looking for its nest.
so I give her my wing to hide under. - p.203

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. - p.215