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On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were. — Jerry Spinelli

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

Home is everything you can walk to. — Jerry Spinelli

Love makes its own magic. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem. — Jerry Spinelli

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. — Jerry Spinelli

Nothing's more fun than being carried away. — Jerry Spinelli

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

OK, so you're not perfect. Who is? — Jerry Spinelli

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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. — Jerry Spinelli

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

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up. — Jerry Spinelli

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. — Jerry Spinelli

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts. — Jerry Spinelli

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares? — Jerry Spinelli

It seemed we were no longer separate, but were one. — Jerry Spinelli

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Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

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

but my rather said no way was he going — Jerry Spinelli

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

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. — Jerry Spinelli

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?_ — Jerry Spinelli

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? — Jerry Spinelli

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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? — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

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

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands. — Jerry Spinelli

But its coolness lies beneath its looks. — Jerry Spinelli

Star people are rare. — Jerry Spinelli

She laughed, and the desert sang. — Jerry Spinelli

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

The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds — Jerry Spinelli

Strange territory for me: the after-snap. I still feel myself vibrating. Humming. — Jerry Spinelli

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else ... flying away ... flying away ... — Jerry Spinelli

You" - he pointed at me - "are the black pearl. — Jerry Spinelli

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 — Jerry Spinelli

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. — Jerry Spinelli

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. — Jerry Spinelli

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. — Jerry Spinelli

For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere. — Jerry Spinelli

When somebody says or does something you like. Amen. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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. — Jerry Spinelli

For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled. — Jerry Spinelli

Heart and head are contrary historians. — Jerry Spinelli

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings. — Jerry Spinelli

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies. — Jerry Spinelli

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

You are what you are"
"Which is what? I wondered — Jerry Spinelli

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

Peer pressure is just that: pressure. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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. — Jerry Spinelli

Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race. — Jerry Spinelli

She turned left when everyone else turned right. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

Beneath every goober is a kid. A person. Maybe he's not what you would call 'regular.' But so what? Is that a bad thing? — Jerry Spinelli

Live today like there's no tomorrow! — Jerry Spinelli

His mind is trying to catch the thought as a cat tries to catch a shadow. — Jerry Spinelli

Events become feelings, feelings become events — Jerry Spinelli

I became a children's author by accident. — Jerry Spinelli

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

Why fit in when you're born to stand out? — Jerry Spinelli

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. — Jerry Spinelli

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

Some nights, we were a city of two. — Jerry Spinelli

Her voice came through the night, from the light, from the stars. — Jerry Spinelli

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

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody. — Jerry Spinelli

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. — Jerry Spinelli

The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. — Jerry Spinelli

When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled — Jerry Spinelli

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. — Jerry Spinelli

I played Little League in junior high and high school. — Jerry Spinelli

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