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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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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.
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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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Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
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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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As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
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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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I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.
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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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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?
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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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There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
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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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Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.
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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 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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