“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 StargirlSource: 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 StargirlSource: Stargirl
“I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.”Jerry Spinelli
“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
“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, StargirlSource: 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 GoSource: Smiles to Go