Wendelin Van Draanen citations

“Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.”

“I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me… This is my new starting line.”

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

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

“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.”

“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”

“If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.”

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

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

“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.”

“I had Flipped.

-Bryce Loski”

“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.”

“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”

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

“What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.”

“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”

“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”

“There's no winning arguments with your parents”

“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

“You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.”

“But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on”

“I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.

-Bryce”

“… and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped.
Completely.”

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

“You never forget your first love.”

“By the end of that first day, what I'd made was a big mess. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, that I was well on my way.”

“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.”