Talk to him normally. He’s really just a normal kid with a face that…you know, is not so normal.
-- Mr. Tushman (“The Julian Chapter”: “Mr. Tushman”)

Importance: Mr. Tushman encourages Julian, Jack, and Charlotte, the three students who have agreed to be Auggie’s welcome buddies, to treat him just like they would treat any other new student at the school. Mr. Tushman has trouble describing Auggie’s appearance even as he tries to project that Auggie is not different from any other kid.

But then, the night after I met Auggie Pullman, I started having nightmares again.
-- Narrator (“The Julian Chapter”: “Scared”)

Importance: Julian describes to his reader how several scary things he saw on television and at the movies made him start having nightmares. He believed he had gotten over these nightmares until he saw Auggie for the first time. That night he had another nightmare.

I didn’t say it, of course, but even though she changed the skies...
-- Narrator (“The Julian Chapter”: “Photoshop”)