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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)
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It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
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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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Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.
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The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.
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He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.
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My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. No, Bryce, he said softly. She's the same as she's always been you're the one who's changed. He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.
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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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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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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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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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But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.
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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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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
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I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him
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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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