“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 StargirlSource: 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 StargirlSource: Stargirl
“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”Jerry Spinelli book StargirlSource: Stargirl
“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 StargirlSource: 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 StargirlSource: 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 StargirlSource: 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, StargirlSource: Love, Stargirl