Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli

A 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 like the first?

Baseball

Bats

Years

A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.

Morning

Song

Voice

A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

Keys

Love Is

Strong

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

Broken

Rain

Wings

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

And so I’m me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I’m hoping you wouldn’t want it any other way. Not that you weren’t flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect – well, that’s trophy enough for any guy’s ego, huh?

Girl

Mean

Memories

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

Love

Mad

Problem

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

Angel

Death

Leaving

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other’s eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

Eye

Stars

Wall

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.

Doe

Everyday

Names

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Achievement

Adoration

Age

Angel

Answers

Attention

Backgrounds

Balance

Baseball

Bats

Beach

Believe

Blanket

Blow

Blue

Body

Book

Boys

Breathing

Broken

Butterfly

Cabbage

Cactus

Calendars

Care

Careful

Carried Away

Cat

Ceilings

Chance

Cheating

Children

Cloudy

College

Color

Communication

Competition

Corners

Cosmos

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Creeks

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Cry

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Cute

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Death

Desert

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Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli

A 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 like the first?

A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

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

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

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

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other’s eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

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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