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Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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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 realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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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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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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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.
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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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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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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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You never forget your first love.
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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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You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
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There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
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Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace
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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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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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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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