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“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

“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

“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

“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 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.”

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

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

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Star people are rare.”

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