All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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Lois Lowry
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
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Amit Ray
I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the...
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Charlotte Eriksson
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
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Charles Dickens
More Quotes By 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.
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.
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.
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
