Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

I get homesick.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

I miss the camera each moment and each day.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.

I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.

I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.

I get really homesick inside.

I am so homesick every day of the week.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

Too much down time makes us miss home.

I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.