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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
Wendelin Van Draanen
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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.... He turned to me. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
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I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.
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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
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But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on
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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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To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind, she said,it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.
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There's no winning arguments with your parents
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I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
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Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
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As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.
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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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Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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