Jerry Spinelli Quotes

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'I looked down past my chin. 'In...

Some nights, we were a city of two.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my na...

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee...

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge...

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her t...

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And the...

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious...

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without di...

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

March 12Dear Stargirl, Hey, you're a big girl now. Stop being such a baby. You think you're the onl...

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's que...

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my ey...

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your ...

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our s...

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al...

I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I ...

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories....

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it ...

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David's mother loved him, and sometime...

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to ...

He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house,...

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own powe...

At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in hi...

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to to...

You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but yo...

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundr...

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a swe...

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...

A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more...

Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, t...

Home is everything you can walk to.

The Clock on the Morning Lenape BuildingMust Clocks be circles?Time is not a circle.Suppose the Moth...

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundr...

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and...

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who w...

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'No,' I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lor...

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bo...

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...

They don't live here. They live in Heaven.'Where's that?'I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's righ...