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Wendelin Van Draanen quotes - page 2
Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
Wendelin Van Draanen
What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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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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Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?" "Sammy!" "Why else would you catapult me through the air and feed me to a man-eating cot?
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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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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. "It's that way with people, too,” he said, "only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.”.
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...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker.
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I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski.
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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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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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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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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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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
There's no winning arguments with your parents.
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It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
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I miss school. What's wrong with me?
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