“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

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American children's writer 1941

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