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It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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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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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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I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.
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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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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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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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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All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.
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Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
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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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Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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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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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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