Jerry Spinelli Quote

He stared at me. She liked you, boy. The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.Yes, I said.She did it for you, you know.What?Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were.I could not look at him. I know.He shook his head with a wistful sadness. No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday...I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid I was, how cowardly, that I blew the bestchance I would ever have. But his smile returned, and his eyes were tender again, and nothing harsherthan cherry smoke came out of his mouth.