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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

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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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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Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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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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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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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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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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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There's no winning arguments with your parents
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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 had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand get to know them
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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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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
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