Loski On Me Quotes & Sayings

People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention. — Milton Friedman

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore.
I liked it.
I liked her. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I had Flipped.

-Bryce Loski — Wendelin Van Draanen

The Dark Side of Camelot. — Roger Stone

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Samuel Johnson

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I don't know about you,
but for me ... to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people. — Toba Beta

Was I really afraid of hurting her feelings? Or was I afraid of her? — Bryce Loski

She didn't just barge into my life. She barged and shoved and wedged her way into my life. — Bryce Loski

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. — Wendelin Van Draanen

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself. — Immanuel Kant

And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just ... real.
And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one.
Where had all this stuff come from?
And why hadn't I ever seen it before. — Wendelin Van Draanen

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school.
Buddy, I was miserable."
-Bryce Loski — Wendelin Van Draanen

My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was. — Christopher Paolini

I liked it.
I liked her.
And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so ... ordinary. — Wendelin Van Draanen

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends. — Gottfried Leibniz