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“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, Flipped

“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

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

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

“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.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

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

“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“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.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Runaway

“What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen

“I had Flipped.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“And then she started climbing/ The girl is in the seventh grade, and she's climbing a tree--way, way up in the tree. And why does she do it? So she can yell down at us that the bus is five! four! three blocks away! Blow-by-blow traffic watch from a tree--what every kid in junior high feels like hearing first thing in the morning. She tried to get me to come up there with her, too. "Bryce, come on! You won't believe the colors! It's absolutely magnificent! Bryce, you've got to come up here!" Yeah, I could just hear it: "Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree..." Was I ever going to leave the second grade behind?”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’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 – only science would put them on the same tree.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen

“Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen

“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.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, The Running Dream

“You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies