Jerry Spinelli Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Feelings, Calendars, Timetables

• In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Cat, Dark, Opposites

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Feelings, Trying

• of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Fall, Mirrors

• Events become feelings, feelings become events

  Jerry Spinelli

  Feelings, Events

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

• Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Love Is, Feelings, Rooms

• I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, People, Feelings

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