Jerry Spinelli Quotes - Page 4

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• And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Love, Mad, Problem

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• When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Easy, Milkweed, Letting Things Go

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children, Important, Earth

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• 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

  Song, Heart, Flying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Enchantment, Earth, Stargirl

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  Real, Names, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me." I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after." She laughed, and the desert sang.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sight, Giving, Desert

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Names, Stargirl, Shirts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Mean, Kissing

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.146, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Crush, Names, Trying

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; she looked down at her chest--"and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Heart, Two

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• You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stupid, Space, Saws

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.144, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

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  Gone, Losing, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.142, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Heart, Feelings, Trying

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• Live today like there's no tomorrow!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Live For Today, Today, Tomorrow

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• I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

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  Flower, Dark, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

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  Heart, Eye, Magic

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, 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 self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

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  Girl, Memories, Mean

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• The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Touching, Care

  Instructor, Volume 103, 1992.

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• I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

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  Curious, Backgrounds, Turns

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• If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Ideas, Want

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• 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.

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  Dog, Cat, Cowboy

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

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  Love Is, Feelings, Rooms

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• He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

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  Thinking, Doe, Doers

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