Quotes from Wendelin Van Draanen

Él se limitó a sonreír y dijo—: Algunos de nosotros tenemos un acabado mate, otros satinado, otros esmaltado.... —él se volvió hacia mí—. Pero de vez en cuando conoces a alguien que es iridiscente, y cuando ocurre, no hay nada comparable.

To hold a mighty heart.

Dad nodded. "There's a lot you could do to not have people call you that, you know.

I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It's that way with people, too, he said, only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

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.

wondered at how much emotion can go into any given day, and thought how nice it was to feel this way at the end of it.

You were just exhausting.

But, Steven!" my mom said, then threw her hands in the air.

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

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.