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

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 60
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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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
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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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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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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
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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 just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him
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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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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
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A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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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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Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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