Jerry Spinelli Quotes - Page 2

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• Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

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• Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

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  Sunflower, Her Smile, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

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  Flying, Silent, Fly Away

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

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  Names, Milkweed, Said

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.

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  Fun, Stargirl, Carried Away

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

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  People, Missing, Groups

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

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

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• 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?

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  Baseball, Years, Bats

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Mean, Smell, Energy

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• 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.

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  Mind, Sitting, Body

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

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• Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

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  Running, Sleep, Laughing

  Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”

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• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

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  Cactus, Today, Tomorrow

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

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  Goal, Achievement, Want

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• Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

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  Real, Names, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life

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  Laughing, Firsts, Taught

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Mind

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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?

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  Kindness, Giving, Wonder

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

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

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  Death, Angel, Leaving

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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  Peer Pressure, Peers, Pressure

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• 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.

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  Life, Stars, Needs

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He said even if it's too cloudy to see, the sun will still rise, it will still be there. "But that's the whole point," I said. "Seeing it." "Is it?" he said.

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  Sun, Said, Cloudy

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

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  Jobs, Risk, Done

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• We 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.

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  Eye, Color, Empathy

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Doorways, Fit, His Smile

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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