“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“We were pretending, and everybody knew you didn't get hurt pretending.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone — Jerry Spinelli Freedom 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 Bike Ride Copy Share Image
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race. — Jerry Spinelli Doubt Copy Share Image
“When's the next star party?" "Spring" "Spring. Long time to wait." "The sky's not going anywhere.” — Jerry Spinelli Astronomy Copy Share Image
Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. — Jerry Spinelli Graveyard Copy Share Image
Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself? — Jerry Spinelli Do it yourself Copy Share Image
“Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out… — Jerry Spinelli Chess 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 America 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
“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
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It… — Jerry Spinelli Angel 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
“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 Cheating yourself Copy Share Image
“I began to feel again something that I had been only dimly aware of before. It was a small, surprising sense of… — Jerry Spinelli Enchanted Copy Share Image
“Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. But I no… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“My happy wagon is almost empty, Leo. Only five pebbles left. Happywise, I’m operating on only 25 percent capacity. Remember when I… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“What else would you expect? Whites never go inside black's homes. Much less inside their thoughts and feelings. And blacks are just… — Jerry Spinelli Thoughts and feelings Copy Share Image
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day. — Jerry Spinelli Light Copy Share Image
You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused. — Jerry Spinelli Focus Copy Share Image
