Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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  Home, School, Forever

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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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  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Waiting, Forever, Lucky

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

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  Done, Might, Has Beens

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

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• Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

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  Lighting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Want, Sometimes, Fronts

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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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  People, Miracle, Needs

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Mother, Light, Knows

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Kids, Artist, Play

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• I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.

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  Home, Thinking, Ifs

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• There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

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  Alive, Make You Happy, Happy To Be Alive

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• What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

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  Heart, Magic, Inexplicable

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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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  Heart, Wind, Earth

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Mom, Dad, Father

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.167, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

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  Ego, Embarrassing, Slaying

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things”, p.134, Yearling

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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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  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.241, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.

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  Son, Hands, Grandfather

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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...

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  Nice, Mean, Eye

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• I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

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  Reason, Wrong Reasons

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Flower, Light, Tree

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Men, Names, Want

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2009). “Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy”, p.252, Yearling

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• I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him

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  Years, Needs, Get Over

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.209, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

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  Way, Talk To Me

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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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  Goodbye, Italian, Way

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.32, Laurel Leaf

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