Quotes by Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Hurt

Long

Running

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Greek

Logical Reasoning

Mathematical Logic

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.

Flower

Light

Tree

And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just…real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker’s world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn’t I ever seen it before.

House

Real

Views

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.

Legs

People

Running

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.

Choices

Dust

Thinking

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.

Dad

Father

Mom

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…

Eye

Mean

Nice

Don’t sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don’t understand; get to know them

Knows

Persons

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair – look at what’s really there.

Eye

Hair

Looks

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Arguing

Art

Artist

Bakers

Beautiful

Book

Boys

Bryce Loski

Character

Choices

Climbing

Covering

Crazy

Crush

Cutting

Dad

Done

Down And

Dream

Dust

Ego

Eight

Embarrassing

Eye

Father

Fiction

Fighting

Flipped

Flower

Fronts

Girl

Giving

Greek

Hair

Happiness

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Home

House

Hurt

Ifs

Inexplicable

Inspiring

Kids

Kissing

Knows

Legs

Light

Lighting

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Quotes by Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

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.

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.

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.

Don’t sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don’t understand; get to know them

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair – look at what’s really there.

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