{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Flipped",
  "slug": "flipped",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped.md",
  "author": {
    "name": "Wendelin Van Draanen",
    "slug": "wendelin-van-draanen",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen"
  },
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/ember/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped_978-03-7582-544-6.jpg",
  "quotes_count": 6,
  "quotes": [
    {
      "id": "e0dda5b0-49b8-4b87-b67a-575668687e3c",
      "slug": "id-never-looked",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/id-never-looked",
      "text": "I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "home",
          "slug": "home",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "e03b9700-c39f-4198-9194-196fc2058595",
      "slug": "my-heart-stopped",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/my-heart-stopped",
      "text": "My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "falling in love",
          "slug": "falling-in-love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "adff9ceb-0da8-4d29-96f5-e220966d9d6e",
      "slug": "i-told-about",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/i-told-about",
      "text": "I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. “It's that way with people, too,” he said, “only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.”",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "human nature",
          "slug": "human-nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "5a77b0a9-3bf1-49e4-a241-2d53589e2fb0",
      "slug": "its-easy-to-look",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/its-easy-to-look",
      "text": "“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "appearances",
          "slug": "appearances",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "3195662f-f20d-42ca-b61d-5f2e6f93902b",
      "slug": "some-of-us-get",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/some-of-us-get",
      "text": "“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "2851908c-11b2-44ef-a1bb-d1444ea10c1c",
      "slug": "something-can-be-so-much",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/something-can-be-so-much",
      "text": "...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "life",
          "slug": "life",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26"
    }
  ]
}