All Jerry Spinelli Quotes
- I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. Attention
- A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of… Aimed
- You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered Funny
- He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. "But that's the whole point," I… Cloudy
- In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew Butterfly
- Her smile put the sunflower to shame. Inspirational
- You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You… Anyone
- Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the… Appleseed
- Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep… Angle
- You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused. Focused
- I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it… Abandon
- If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me. Blubbering
- She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in… Danced
- Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic… Been
- He's so cute, I can't help myself. Cute
- Why fit in when you're born to stand out? Born
- His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway Break
- She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone… Always Measured
- I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched All
- Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race. Human
- We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. Attention
- Events become feelings, feelings become events Become Events
- Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Future
- 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 lasts for less… All