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Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know.
Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. Do the right thing.

It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie I told.

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily.

Blue Face
Disgusting taste
Flush it
Shush it
Cold disgrace

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

I knew we weren't rich, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing.

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Backup backpacks.

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

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

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

He'd crossed the line, man. He'd crossed it big-time.

It was nice, though, riding with my father. It was like the silence connected us in a way that explanations never could.

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

Maybe it was how you looked at it. Maybe there were things I saw as ugly that other people thought were beautiful.

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

My life is over. Behind

Anger is a fuel that can only carry you so far.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

I had Flipped.

-Bryce Loski

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

You never forget your first love.

I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.
-Bryce

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

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

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.

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

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me ... This is my new starting line.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

I miss school.
What's wrong with me?

Thank you for helping me turn the page.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

Which I guess is better than her playing her usual role in How I Ruined My Daughter's Life.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair
Look at what's really there.

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear.
-Bryce

I don't think you're aloud to be homeschooled if you don't have a home.

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER

P.I.P.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

Man, talk about having a skeleton in the closet - this

It's that way with people, too. Only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.