Jerry SpinelliStar people are rare. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.110, Knopf Books for Young Readers363HumanityReading
Jerry SpinelliA baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel… ▶341ReadingTime
Jerry SpinelliI had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Read… ▶341Reading
Jerry SpinelliHey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?331Time
Jerry SpinelliThe earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will to… ▶375ReadingTime
Jerry SpinelliI faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. Sh… ▶342ReadingSadness
Jerry SpinelliAngels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2003). Milkweed, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers332Reading
Jerry SpinelliTo a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes, there's no sand. At least not the sort of sand you … ▶365Reading
Jerry SpinelliThey don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba sa… ▶311Reading
Jerry SpinelliLife is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but … ▶322HumanityLifeReading
Jerry SpinelliNothing’s more fun than being carried away. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers333Reading
Jerry SpinelliYou haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2007). Love, Stargirl, p.44, Knopf Books for Young Readers345HumanityLoveReading
Jerry SpinelliAs 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 da… ▶323Time
Jerry SpinelliBecause that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when … ▶301HumorThought
Jerry SpinelliHow much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?345Humanity
Jerry SpinelliIronic, 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 i… ▶291LoveReading
Jerry SpinelliWho are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2003). Milkweed, p.3, Knopf Books fo… ▶302Reading
Jerry SpinelliLetter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?379Time
Jerry SpinelliWe live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...335Truth
Jerry SpinelliI’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.45, Knopf Books for … ▶313Reading
Jerry SpinelliWe long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2007). Love, Stargirl, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers335LoveReading
Jerry SpinelliIt was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.237, Knopf Book… ▶3710LoveReading
Jerry SpinelliLet'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. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2007). … ▶281HopeLoveReading
Jerry SpinelliStargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater.… ▶325HumorReading
Jerry SpinelliYou occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid? ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Sta… ▶369HopeReadingSadness
Jerry SpinelliEvery name is real. That's the nature of names. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers325Reading
Jerry SpinelliWe were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012… ▶314LifeReadingThought
Jerry SpinelliWhen 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.281HumanityLoveTime
Jerry SpinelliThe trouble with miracles is, they don't last long. ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.33, Knopf Books for Young Readers303Reading
Jerry SpinelliWe wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance. ✨ Jerry Spinell… ▶326ReadingTime
