Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And… — 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
They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this… — Jerry Spinelli 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
Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that… — Jerry Spinelli 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 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 Image
Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
