Jerry Spinelli Quotes

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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.

    Jerry Spinelli (2008). “Eggs”
  • 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.

  • If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

    Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

  • If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

  • Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

  • It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

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

  • And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

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

    Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • The 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 touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Because 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 you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

    Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”
  • Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

  • Hey, 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?

  • And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

  • Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.

    Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Milkweed”, p.142, Hachette UK
  • We 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 Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

    Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

    Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.44, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can't start breathing until I see her smile at me. She always does, but the next day I'm always afraid she won't. At lunch I'm afraid she'll smile more at BT than at me. I'm afraid she'll look at him in some way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is - fear?

  • 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, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Who 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 for Young Readers
  • Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?

  • She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you'll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes.

    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

  • One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

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

  • You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

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