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Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for Maniac Magee, Stargirl and Wringer. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. February 1941  •  Other names جری اسپینلی
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Stargirl
Stargirl
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Love, Stargirl
Love, Stargirl
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Milkweed
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Love, Stargirl
Love, Stargirl
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Milkweed
Milkweed
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Famous Jerry Spinelli Quotes

“if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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?”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

“Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli Quotes about people

“As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.”

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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Star people are rare.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli Quotes about a smile

“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

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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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”

Jerry Spinelli

As quoted in Instructor, Vol. 103 (1992), p. 201

“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli Quotes

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Variant: Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
Source: Love, Stargirl

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Every name is real. That's the nature of names.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw… nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“She laughed, and the desert sang.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.”

Jerry Spinelli book Milkweed

Source: Milkweed

“Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.”

Jerry Spinelli

“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about… One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“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 school.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“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

“A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s ego, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“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.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Who are you?'
I didn't understand the question.
I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'
I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.”

Jerry Spinelli book Milkweed

Source: Milkweed

“Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“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 tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli Smiles to Go

Source: Smiles to Go

“Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.”

Jerry Spinelli book Maniac Magee

Source: Maniac Magee

“Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.”

Jerry Spinelli book Milkweed

Source: Milkweed

“They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'
Maybe that explains it,' I said.”

Jerry Spinelli

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