Jerry Spinelli quotes - page 2

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people. (Jerry Spinelli)
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians. View quote
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I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life. View quote
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I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. View quote
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth. View quote
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You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know. View quote
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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 smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? View quote
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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. View quote
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Star people are rare. View quote
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. View quote
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Heart and head are contrary historians. (Jerry Spinelli)
Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore. View quote
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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance. View quote
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. View quote
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I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl. View quote
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names. View quote
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I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. View quote
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In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew. View quote
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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 again - loving you, but I won't abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself. View quote
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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 do it. View quote
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Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. (Jerry Spinelli)
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. View quote
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If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you'll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me. View quote
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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 of a sunrise kiss. View quote
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Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. View quote
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