Jerry Spinelli

He's so cute, I can't help myself.

— Jerry Spinelli

“He's a sunshine bottle.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“No When. No Then. Only Now.”

— Jerry Spinelli

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

Live today like there's no tomorrow!

— Jerry Spinelli

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Love makes its own magic.”

— Jerry Spinelli

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

“There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle.”

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

— Jerry Spinelli

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you…

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

“The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more…

— Jerry Spinelli

“in the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture…

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“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…

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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an…

— 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…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet…

— Jerry Spinelli

“So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It started when the earth…

— Jerry Spinelli

“There was a sense that things - words, feelings, laughs - were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out.…

— Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of…

— Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

“You're really dumb," she whispered in my ear. "Yeah?" "Yeah. Why do you think there're eighteen pebbles in my wagon?" And then…

— Jerry Spinelli

She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured…

— Jerry Spinelli

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the…

— Jerry Spinelli

Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there.…

— Jerry Spinelli

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

“Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. But I no…

— Jerry Spinelli

“I began to feel again something that I had been only dimly aware of before. It was a small, surprising sense of…

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“You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and…

— Jerry Spinelli

“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…

— Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at…

— Jerry Spinelli