Jerry Spinelli Quotes

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that ti...

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.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

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

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of d...

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...

Heart and head are contrary historians.

I began to feel again something that I had been only dimly aware of before. It was a small, surprising sense of disappointment even as he was kissing me, but the violins were so loud at the time I cou...

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

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

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?

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

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.

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...

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh.My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timidintroverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In...

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'No,' I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtl...

دیگر امیدی به پیدا شدن نیست.دنبال من نکرد! بگذار فقط افسانه‌وار همان‌جا که هستیم و هر که هستیم بمانیم. تو خودت باش و من هم خودم.امروز و امروز و امروز. و بگذار آینده به فردا اعتماد کند. بگذار ستاره‌ها...

The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on 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.