Jerry Spinelli Quotes

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

She laughed, and the desert sang.

About Author

Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.

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

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

Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the mo...

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

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

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...

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

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own...

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond th...

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next mornin...

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

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

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

To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s...

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.In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and star...