Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Kindness, Giving, Wonder

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, 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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