“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl….… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more and more… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact,… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“I'm pounding and kicking him and I'm all me and I'm kicking and kicking into the face that's crying and begging for… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Now," my mother sniffled, "WERE you abducted? Kidnapped?" "You mean did somebody snatch me?" "Yes. Well?" "Why would anybody wanna snatch ME?"… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“He wagged his finger in my face. "You're not SUPPOSED to do anything. YOU'RE the one trying to change ME. Remember? As… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
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… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“chewed time like a wad of bubble gum and stretched it across the darkness all the way to dawn, when the light at the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
“When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
“I had to get out. Move. I ran through neighborhoods, other lives, other worlds. Solipsism. A man on his lawn mower. Green and yellow.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
