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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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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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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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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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My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. No, Bryce, he said softly. She's the same as she's always been you're the one who's changed. He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.
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Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.
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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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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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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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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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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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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 miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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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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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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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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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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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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
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It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
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