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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
When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.
— 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
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
It seemed we were no longer separate, but were one.
— Jerry Spinelli
hospital in Yuma. We
— Jerry Spinelli
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
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
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
We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else ... flying away ... flying away ...
— Jerry Spinelli
She wanted defiance in her face, and I wanted to wipe it away with a fuck so hard we'd both break.
— C.D. Reiss
Heart and head are contrary historians.
— Jerry Spinelli
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
— 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
When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.
— 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
For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere.
— Jerry Spinelli
I like people who talk a lot. Since I don't.
— Jerry Spinelli
For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled.
— Jerry Spinelli
It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.
— Jerry Spinelli
... we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.
— Ernesto Spinelli
She turned left when everyone else turned right.
— Jerry Spinelli
Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
— 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
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
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
Do something that scares you everyday.
— Melina Marchetta
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
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
You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered — Jerry Spinelli
Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
— Jerry Spinelli
He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade
— Jerry Spinelli
She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back.
— Jerry Spinelli
The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
— Jerry Spinelli
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
— 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
Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.
— Ernesto Spinelli
I became a children's author by accident.
— 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
Events become feelings, feelings become events
— Jerry Spinelli
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
— Melina Marchetta
... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.
— Ernesto Spinelli
Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And
— Jerry Spinelli
Live today like there's no tomorrow!
— Jerry Spinelli
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
— 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
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
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
Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
— Jerry Spinelli
