Wendelin Van Draanen цитаты

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

Источник: Flipped (2001)

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: The Running Dream

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

Источник: The Running Dream

“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.”

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

“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.”

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped (2001)

“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.”

Источник: Flipped

“I had Flipped.

-Bryce Loski”

Источник: Flipped

“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.”

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Runaway

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

“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”

Источник: Flipped (2001)

“There's no winning arguments with your parents”

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

-Bryce”

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

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

Источник: Flipped

“You never forget your first love.”

Источник: The Running Dream

“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.”

Источник: Flipped

“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.”

Источник: Flipped