"I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldnâ€™t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet â€“ only science would put them on the same tree."

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Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Wendelin Van Draanen

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“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.”
“Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.”
“Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.”
“An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.”
“Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.”
“It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.”
“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”

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“To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.”

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