Kiran Karamchandani

“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“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”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped