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A painting is more than the sum of its parts
Wendelin Van Draanen
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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski
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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 realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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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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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
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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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There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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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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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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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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Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
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