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Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

Jerry Spinelli

Kids, Thinking, Play

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

Jerry Spinelli

Rain, Wings, Broken

Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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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.

Jerry Spinelli

School, Tests, Lasts

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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

Mother, Fall, Years

Jerry Spinelli (2008). “Eggs”

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He's so cute, I can't help myself.

Jerry Spinelli

Cute, Helping, I Can

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.93, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

Gone, World, Puppy

Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Jerry Spinelli

Memories, Lying, Night

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl, Said, Grades

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Jerry Spinelli

Children, Kids, Office

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I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

Jerry Spinelli

Lunch, Care, Proud

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

Jerry Spinelli

Eye, Sky, World

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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

Jerry Spinelli

Boys, Embrace, Blanket

Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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Star people are rare.

Jerry Spinelli

Stars, People

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.110, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

Jerry Spinelli

Kids, Firsts, Said

Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Jerry Spinelli

Facts, Careful

Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Jerry Spinelli

Angel, Hiding, Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

Jerry Spinelli

Angel, Past, Cabbage

Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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They 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 says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.

Jerry Spinelli

Wall, Angel, Russia

Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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

Dream, Horse, Fall

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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

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She laughed, and the desert sang.

Jerry Spinelli

Desert, Laughed

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Jerry Spinelli

Attention, Stargirl, Needed

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

Jerry Spinelli

Butterfly, Mind, Cactus

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

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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

Real, Together Again, Half

Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

Jerry Spinelli

School, No Friends, Persons

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

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