Jerry Spinelli Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.
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.
MRI good ... X-ray good ... blood work good ...
If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?
If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?
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.
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.
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"Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all.
I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.
So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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.
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?_
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.
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?
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!
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?
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?
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
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?
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
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.
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.
Maybe that explains it,' I said.
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.
Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And
But feelings, they don't care about telling. They just go right on, piling on top of one another like a big sandwich.
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.
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