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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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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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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 the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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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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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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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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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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(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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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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You never forget your first love.
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A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.
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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
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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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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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Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.
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