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161 " The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. Do the right thing. "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , Flipped
162 " I hate t see you swim out so far you can't swim back. "
163 " It's that way with people, too. Only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts. "
― Wendelin Van Draanen
164 " How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again? "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , Confessions of a Serial Kisser
165 " Which I guess is better than her playing her usual role in How I Ruined My Daughter’s Life. "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher (Sammy Keyes, #13)
166 " Every once in a while you find someone who is iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. "
167 " Anger is a dry riverbed. You should follow it only if it leads you to the springs of forgiveness. "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , Wild Bird
168 " My life is over. Behind "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , The Running Dream
169 " This is the kind of silence that connects us in a way that words never could. "
170 " The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, and your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. Your determination is all that's left. It forces your muscles to fire. Forces you to stay in the race. Forces you to survive the pain of this moment. "
171 " Conquering the wild is nothing compared to fixing the cracks in your heart. "
172 " Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss but every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you, nothing will compare "
173 " chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one’s universe, then I was well on my way. "
174 " Dont't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them. "
175 " I’d way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions. "
― Wendelin Van Draanen , Runaway
176 " I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back. "
177 " You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new. "
178 " The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped. Honestly, one look at him and I became a lunatic. It’s his eyes. Something in his eyes. They’re blue, and framed in the blackness of his lashes, they’re dazzling. Absolutely breathtaking. "
179 " 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. I "
180 " Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them. "