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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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Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
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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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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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I miss school. What’s wrong with me?
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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 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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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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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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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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You never forget your first love.
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The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.
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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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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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If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
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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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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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A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
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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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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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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