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Thanks," she said, and went back to the coffee urn. Not exactly chummy. Suddenly grumpy Alvina

Home is everything you can walk to.

Love makes its own magic.

When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.

We were pretending, and everybody knew you didn't get hurt pretending.

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you'll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

If I get a new idea today - or any day - I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do - I'll do it.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

Nothing's more fun than being carried away.

I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1. And

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

MRI good ... X-ray good ... blood work good ...
If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?

When's the next star party?"
"Spring"
"Spring. Long time to wait."
"The sky's not going anywhere.

You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?

Mr, B, what's wrong with me?"
[ ... ]
"Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all.

hospital in Yuma. We

I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them.

So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

but my rather said no way was he going

The horizontal world I had thought I occupied was tilting, dumping me somewhere else, somewhere new.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

Okay, so you're not perfect. Who is?
Sure, Susan makes sense. But my heart doesn't care about sense. My heart never says: _Why?_ Only: _Who?_

You remember everything people say to you?'

I locked into his eyes. 'Everything /some/ people say to me.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw ... nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light.

I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear ...

Ma-niac, Ma-niac
He's so cool
Ma-niac, Ma-niac
Don't go to school
Runs all night
Runs all right
Ma-niac, Ma-niac
Kissed a bull!

Hey, this is it - right now! - the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

You're a kid trying to figure out the world you were born into, that's all.

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

Star people are rare.

If you learn to hate one or two persons ... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

Still he had not cracked a smile, but his eyes were different now, they were here.

His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

I mean if she's real, she's in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who's really like that is going to last around here?

When somebody says or does something you like. Amen.

The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights.

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Happiness one last chance to happen?

It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.

That was fifteen years ago. Fifteen Valentine's Days.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?'
'Why can't you be normal?'
'Why do you wanna be so different?

Some nights, we were a city of two.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

I became a children's author by accident.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'
Maybe that explains it,' I said.

I like people who talk a lot. Since I don't.

She turned left when everyone else turned right.

The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits ... waits.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same

Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

But feelings, they don't care about telling. They just go right on, piling on top of one another like a big sandwich.

For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.
Stargirl

You are what you are"
"Which is what? I wondered

She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back.

Letter from Mr. B:
Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.