Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.
Star people are rare.
Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said.What about it?Well, it's nice to get credit.The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a...
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 bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.
His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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...
Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
The Clock on the Morning Lenape BuildingMust Clocks be circles?Time is not a circle.Suppose the Mother of All Minutes startedright here, on the sidewalkin front of the Morning Lenape Building, and the...
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.
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...
I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m...
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.
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
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...
Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. I hat...
If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.