Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Heart and head are contrary historians.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Historian, Head And Heart

• 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

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Eye, Magic

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

• 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.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Feelings, Trying

• Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Heart, Self

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.52, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sorry, Pain, Powerful

• 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

• No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Heart, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Flames, Hands

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, People, Soul

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