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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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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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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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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 just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him
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There's no winning arguments with your parents
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I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
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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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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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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
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But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was the man, the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable. -Bryce Loski
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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 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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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
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(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)
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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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...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
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