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Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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Chicago
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Lighting
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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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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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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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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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There's no winning arguments with your parents
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But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on
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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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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
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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 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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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