Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Butterfly, Mind

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Dark, Moon

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

• Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Father, Flower, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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