“Summers there are awful! Winters there are awful! Why do you stay? You ought to run away! Hop a train! Stow away… — Wendelin Van Draanen Fitness Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person… — Wendelin Van Draanen Fit Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is. — Wendelin Van Draanen Caught Copy Share Image
“If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Inspirational Copy Share Image
You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard. — Wendelin Van Draanen Men Copy Share Image
There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Feels Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to be able to sleep a wink tonight. I hate shelters. People coughing and snoring and hacking up who-knows-what.… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages. — Wendelin Van Draanen Allergic Copy Share Image
Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace — Wendelin Van Draanen Blue Copy Share Image
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like… — Wendelin Van Draanen Connected Copy Share Image
But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on — Wendelin Van Draanen Enough Copy Share Image
“The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Choice Copy Share Image
“It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with… — Wendelin Van Draanen Life lessons Copy Share Image
“And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb;… — Wendelin Van Draanen Perpetual motion Copy Share Image
“Thank you for helping me turn the page.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Thank you for helping Copy Share Image
“And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Truth Copy Share Image
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people… — Wendelin Van Draanen Advice Copy Share Image
And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who… — Wendelin Van Draanen Bakers Copy Share Image
“I knew we weren't rich, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Life Copy Share Image
“Words can't fix my life. Words can't give me a family. Words can't do jack. You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone,… — Wendelin Van Draanen Family Copy Share Image
What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were. — Wendelin Van Draanen Behave Copy Share Image
