Jerry Spinelli Quotes - Page 5

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• Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

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  Goal, Achievement, Want

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• I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.

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  Night, Hands, Cosmos

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

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  Names, Everyday, Doe

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• Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?

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  Feel Better, Doe, Scratches

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• No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

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  Reading, Hero, Writing

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• Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

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  Who We Are, Today, Tomorrow

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He's so cute, I can't help myself.

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  Cute, Helping, I Can

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.93, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

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  Kids, Writing, Thinking

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• Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

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  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

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  War, Writing, College

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• She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life

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  Laughing, Firsts, Taught

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

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  Book, Reading, Surprise

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

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  Realizing

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• Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

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  Race, Uncomfortable, Humans

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Events become feelings, feelings become events

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  Feelings, Events

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.68, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

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  Music, Summer, Order

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

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• I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.

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  Memories, Loving You, Missing

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• You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

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  Knows, Focused

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

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  Life, Rain, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

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  School, Tests, Lasts

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

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  Long, Miracle, Lasts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.33, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Heart, People, Soul

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• Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

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  Mother, Fall, Years

  Jerry Spinelli (2008). “Eggs”

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• Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

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  Fall, Eye, Effort

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

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  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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