#van draanen

[lets-try-that-again-blog]

And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you’re floating.

Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen

[onequoteperday]

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

Wendelin Van Draanen (from Flipped)

[quotes-for-reference]

But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen

[sammykeyesta]

"You know how you're going along in your life and you think you know where you're going, and then you wake up one day and you find yourself in a place you never thought you'd go at all? It's like, how did you get there? And you feel lost and everything seems strange and dark and you don't know how to back up or which way to turn? I call that the Edge of the World."

-Sammy Keyes

[disregardcanon]

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

-Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

[onequoteperday]

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

Wendelin Van Draanen (from Runaway)

[wordswithinyou]

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you’re floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person’s eyes. They’re connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

Wendelin Van Draanen

[realloveforever]

The starting line is also the finishing line ;D

"One plus one plus one plus one.

And somewhere in my fuzzy mind I make a connection--

that's how everything is done.

One by one by one by one.

That's how I got through losing a leg.

Minute by minute by minute by minute.

Hour by hour by hour by hour.

Day by day  by day by day.

That's how anybody makes it through anything," (Van Draanen 328) 

sounds wonderful?! haha, i think so. little steps compose a bigger picture. the quote above comes from a book called The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen. Marianne Leone praises The Running Dream: "With deep insight and sensitivity, Wendelin Van Draanen explores a profoundly human and liberating concept--to see the person, not the disability--in this wonderful portrait of a young girl and her community."

welp, just read dis book and thought these words may brighten your day, perhaps with sweet revelations. God bless!!!