Jerry Spinelli Short Quotes

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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

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

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

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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

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

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

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

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

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

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I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

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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.

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It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

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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.

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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.

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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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So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

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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.

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I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

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You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

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How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

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You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw... nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

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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.

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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

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No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

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Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don't mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.

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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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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

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