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Stargirl

Name: Stargirl
Author: Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl is a young adult novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and first published in 2000.

“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”

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“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.”

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“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?”

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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”

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“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.”

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“Home is everything you can walk to.”

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“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”

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“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”

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“Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.”

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“I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched”

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“She laughed, and the desert sang.”

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“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”

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“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.”

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“Every name is real. That's the nature of names.”

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“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”

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“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

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“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”

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“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

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“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.”

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“Star people are rare.”

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