“in the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture… — jerry spinelli Best friend Copy Share Image
Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and… — Jerry Spinelli Future Copy Share Image
We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past… — Jerry Spinelli Balance Copy Share Image
“If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his… — Jerry Spinelli Belief Copy Share Image
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems… — Jerry Spinelli Feelings Copy Share Image
“I loved his goatee even more than his mustache. It was so soft and white. I wanted to rub my face in… — Jerry Spinelli Hair Copy Share Image
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel… — Jerry Spinelli Angel Copy Share Image
“There was a sense that things - words, feelings, laughs - were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out.… — Jerry Spinelli Emptiness Copy Share Image
“So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It started when the earth… — Jerry Spinelli Enchantment Copy Share Image
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“I'm disappearing, Leo. Like Dootsie's trick, except this is real. Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose… — Jerry Spinelli Brokenhearted Copy Share Image
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“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“chewed time like a wad of bubble gum and stretched it across the darkness all the way to dawn, when the light… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find… — Jerry Spinelli April Copy Share Image
Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there.… — Jerry Spinelli Benches Copy Share Image
You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone… — Jerry Spinelli Beauty 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
You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it… — Jerry Spinelli Brief moments Copy Share Image
“The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who was I to… — Jerry Spinelli Earth Copy Share Image
of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction:… — Jerry Spinelli Attention Copy Share Image
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. — Jerry Spinelli Attention Copy Share Image
“If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ... Then ... ues… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. "But that's the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“How do you not try to get something you want? How do you stop caring about the thing that you care about… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. — Jerry Spinelli Book Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
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 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 Attention Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid she’ll look at him in some way that she doesn’t look at me. I’m afraid that when I go to… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay,… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re… — Jerry Spinelli Time Copy Share Image
I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and… — Jerry Spinelli Astronomy Copy Share Image
It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s… — Jerry Spinelli Body Copy Share Image
“So many careers came and went through me: salamander finder, crawfish annoyer, flat-stone creek skipper, cedar chest smeller, railroad car counter, tin… — Jerry Spinelli Career Copy Share Image
