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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.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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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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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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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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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 realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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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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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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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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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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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
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Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
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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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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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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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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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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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