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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”

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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