“The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds” — Jerry Spinelli Bird Copy Share Image
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. — Jerry Spinelli Children Copy Share Image
“You're a kid trying to figure out the world you were born into, that's all.” — Jerry Spinelli Birth Copy Share Image
“I resolved that if I was ever in a war, I would be a dumb nonspy.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.” — Jerry Spinelli Hate Copy Share Image
“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.” — Jerry Spinelli Feelings Copy Share Image
“The horizontal world I had thought I occupied was tilting, dumping me somewhere else, somewhere new.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Hari ini memanggil-manggilmu, mencoba mendapatkan perhatianmu, tapi kau terpaku pada hari esok dan hari ini pun berlalu tetes demi tetes seperti air… — Jerry Spinelli Yang Copy Share Image
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away… — Jerry Spinelli Butterfly Copy Share Image
“MRI good... X-ray good... blood work good..." If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?” — 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
Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as… — Jerry Spinelli Cat Copy Share Image
Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me,… — Jerry Spinelli Collision Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later the let-loose sidewalk pups will cross the streets. Running, they will run into each other. And sooner or later,… — Jerry Spinelli Animal Copy Share Image
“You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars… — 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
“To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her… — Jerry Spinelli 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
“It's hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“I had to get out. Move. I ran through neighborhoods, other lives, other worlds. Solipsism. A man on his lawn mower. Green… — Jerry Spinelli Blue sky 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 Copy Share Image
I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl….… — Jerry Spinelli Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Early on, Zinkoff's mother impressed upon her son the etiquette of throwing up: That is, do not throw up at random, but… — Jerry Spinelli Humor Copy Share Image
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Around fourth grade something similar happens with eyes. The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave… — Jerry Spinelli Loser 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
