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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
Wendelin Van Draanen
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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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 don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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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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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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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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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.... He turned to me. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
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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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You never forget your first love.
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It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
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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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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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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.
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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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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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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.
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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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