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From Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
- In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't…
- I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.
- Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
- Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged?…
- If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll…
- One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever…
- Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
- 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 yourself in a…
- Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves…
- Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She…
- We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
- Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
- Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun…
- I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from…
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