Jerry Spinelli: Trending quotes

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Star people are rare.”

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

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

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

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

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