Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
Author
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Even
Felt
Every
Another
Sudden
Time
Didn
Stranger
Like
Around
Anywhere
School
Fit
Home
Turned
Persons
Forever
Person
Known
More quotes by Wendelin Van Draanen
I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce
Wendelin Van Draanen
Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
Wendelin Van Draanen
It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.
Wendelin Van Draanen
There's no winning arguments with your parents
Wendelin Van Draanen
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
Wendelin Van Draanen
I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce
Wendelin Van Draanen
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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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).
Wendelin Van Draanen
It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
Wendelin Van Draanen
Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace
Wendelin Van Draanen
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
Wendelin Van Draanen
There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
Wendelin Van Draanen
A painting is more than the sum of its parts
Wendelin Van Draanen
