“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
“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
“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, StargirlSource: 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
“And smiles to go before I weep,And Smiles to go before I weep.”Jerry Spinelli Smiles to GoSource: Smiles to Go