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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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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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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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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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A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.
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Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
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Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
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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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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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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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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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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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If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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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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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
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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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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
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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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