Ica

“All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so… ordinary.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“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, everybody else seemed so ordinary.
I had flipped.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped