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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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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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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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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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'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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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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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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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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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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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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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Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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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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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was the man, the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable. -Bryce Loski
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I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.
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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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(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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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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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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