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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.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand get to know them
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Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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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Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace
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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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Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!
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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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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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You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
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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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Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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