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One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce
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I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him
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It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).
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Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
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I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce
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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
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A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
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Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.
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It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
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If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.
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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
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Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
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There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
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