A painting is not simply pieced together by many objects. The cow is just a cow, the grassland has only grass and flowers, and the sunlight passing through the branches is just a beam of light, but if they are put together, it will have a magical charm.
The higher I got, the more amazed I was by the view
.
Some days the sunsets would be purple and pink. And some days they were a blazing orange setting fire to the clouds on the horizon. It was during one of those sunsets that my father's idea of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts moved From my head to my heart.
Sometimes the setting sun has a purple afterglow, sometimes it emits an orange fire to ignite the sunset on the horizon. In this splendid sunset scene, I slowly realized the truth that my father said that the whole is better than the partial sum.
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road
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Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Some people become mediocre shallow, duplicitous, and Lost among them. But inadvertently, one day you will meet a rainbow-like gorgeous person, and from then on, other people are just clouds in a hurry.
The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped. It was those eyes, something in those dazzling eyes. The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped
. There is a kind of magic in his eyes that makes me fascinated.
The next thing I know, he's holding my hand and looking right into my eyes. My heart stopped. Was this it? Would this be my first kiss?
Next I know is, he squeezed my hand, Look at me affectionately. My heart stopped beating. Is it coming soon? Is my first kiss coming soon?
Sherry Stalls was nothing but a whiny, gossipy, backstabbing flirt. All hair and no substance. And there she was holding hands with Bryce. My Bryce. The one who was walking around with my first kiss.
Shirley Stora Wales is Talking, sinister, long-tongued woman with long hair and short knowledge. But she actually took Bryce's hand. That's my Bryce! Bryce who swaggered around with my first kiss!
-And she's been stalking me since the second grade.
-Well, a girl like that doesn't live next door to everyone.
-She 's been stalking me since the second grade .
-This kind of girl is hard to come by.
One's character is set at an early age. I'd hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back
.
The way she talked about what it felt like to be up in that tree to be held above the earth, brushed by the wind. Who in junior high talks like that? This weird feeling started taking over in the pit of my stomach and I didn 't like it. When
she talked about the feeling of being in the treetops, she said it was like being lifted high, with the breeze blowing her face. Which junior high school student would say such a thing? This weird feeling churns in my stomach, I don't like it.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
How far can the apple fall from the tree ?
And I realized Garrett was right about one thing: I had flipped. Completely
. Completely moved.
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