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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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Nothing
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Headstrong
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As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
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There's no winning arguments with your parents
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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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I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
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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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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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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
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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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You never forget your first love.
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Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
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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 miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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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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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 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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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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If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.
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I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.
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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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