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1. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
2. "You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
3. "I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.-Bryce" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
4. "I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
5. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
6. "Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
7. "Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
8. "Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this.I just need to score a match." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
9. "It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has)." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
10. "Blue FaceDisgusting tasteFlush itShush itCold disgrace" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
11. "Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
12. "She was married to my dad, and everything was fine until he got killed in some freak tractor accident.Yeah, that's what I said, a freak tractor accident." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
13. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
14. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
15. "Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
16. "Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
17. "If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
18. "What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
19. "I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
20. "You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
21. "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
22. "Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
23. "Aw, he's just you know...entrenched," Matt said. "Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there." Then he added, "Not that I'd want him as my dad...."Mike practically sprayed his milk. "Dude! Can you imagine?" Then Matt gave my dad a slap on the back and said, "No way. I'm sticking with my main man here." My mom grinned from across the kitchen and said, "Me too."I'd never seen my father cry. And he didn't exactly sit there bawling, but there were definitely tears welling up in his eyes." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
24. "Then I saw Juli. She was two tables away from me, facing my direction. Only she wasn't looking at me. She was looking at Jon, her eyes all sparkly and laughing.My heart lurched. What was she laughing about? What were they talking about? How could she sit there and look so... beautiful?I felt myself spinning out of control. It was weird. Like I couldn't even steer my own body. I'd always thought Jon was pretty cool, but right then I wanted to go over and throw him across the room." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
25. "I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
26. "I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
27. "I liked it.I liked her.And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
28. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
29. "Karakter seseorang terbentuk sejak kecil, Nak. Pilihan yang kau buat hari ini akan memengaruhi hidupmu sampai kapan pun." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
30. "Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
31. "Bryce," she whispers. "What's wrong."I can barely breathe as I ask her, "Do you like him?""Do I... you mean Jon?""Yes!""Well, sure. He's nice and -""No, do you like him?" My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited."Well, no. I mean, not like that...."No! She said no! I didn't care where I was, I didn't care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then..." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
32. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
33. "Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
34. "Backup backpacks." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
35. "Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
36. "If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
37. "My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
38. "To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
39. "Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
40. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
41. "I had Flipped.-Bryce Loski" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
42. "And then she started climbing/ The girl is in the seventh grade, and she's climbing a tree--way, way up in the tree. And why does she do it? So she can yell down at us that the bus is five! four! three blocks away! Blow-by-blow traffic watch from a tree--what every kid in junior high feels like hearing first thing in the morning. She tried to get me to come up there with her, too. "Bryce, come on! You won't believe the colors! It's absolutely magnificent! Bryce, you've got to come up here!" Yeah, I could just hear it: "Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree..." Was I ever going to leave the second grade behind?" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
43. "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" ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
44. "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." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
45. "If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
46. "Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they've given up and try to lure someone else." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
47. "Proper lighting is everything, Julianna." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
48. "What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
49. "What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
50. "You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done." ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
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