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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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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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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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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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Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.
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Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
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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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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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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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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
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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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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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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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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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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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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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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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(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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