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Live today like there's no tomorrow! By Jerry Spinelli

I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares? By Jerry Spinelli

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against. By Jerry Spinelli

If I get a new idea today - or any day - I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do - I'll do it. By Jerry Spinelli

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

Maniac Magee was not born in a dump. By Jerry Spinelli

Okay, so you're not perfect. Who is?Sure, Susan makes sense. But my heart doesn't care about sense. My heart never says: _Why?_ Only: _Who?_ By Jerry Spinelli

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

Hey, this is it - right now! - the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff? By Jerry Spinelli

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. By Jerry Spinelli

but my rather said no way was he going By Jerry Spinelli

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. By Jerry Spinelli

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 By Jerry Spinelli

Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper? By Jerry Spinelli

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

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. By Jerry Spinelli

If you learn to hate one or two persons ... you'll soon hate millions of people. By Jerry Spinelli

The horizontal world I had thought I occupied was tilting, dumping me somewhere else, somewhere new. By Jerry Spinelli

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. By Jerry Spinelli

I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear ... By Jerry Spinelli

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. By Jerry Spinelli

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before. By Jerry Spinelli

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'Maybe that explains it,' I said. By Jerry Spinelli

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull. By Jerry Spinelli

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

When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken. By Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them. By Jerry Spinelli

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. By Jerry Spinelli

Every day brings a new memory of something we did a year ago. A parade of unhappy anniversaries. By Jerry Spinelli

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem. By Jerry Spinelli

Mr, B, what's wrong with me?"[ ... ]"Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all. By Jerry Spinelli

Thanks," she said, and went back to the coffee urn. Not exactly chummy. Suddenly grumpy Alvina By Jerry Spinelli

You're a kid trying to figure out the world you were born into, that's all. By Jerry Spinelli

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. By Jerry Spinelli

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? By Jerry Spinelli

I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1. And By Jerry Spinelli

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

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

But feelings, they don't care about telling. They just go right on, piling on top of one another like a big sandwich. By Jerry Spinelli

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long. By Jerry Spinelli

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

MRI good ... X-ray good ... blood work good ... If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here? By Jerry Spinelli

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? By Jerry Spinelli

Some nights, we were a city of two. By Jerry Spinelli

On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were. By Jerry Spinelli

Peer pressure is just that: pressure. By Jerry Spinelli

It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against. By Jerry Spinelli

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. By Jerry Spinelli

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. By Jerry Spinelli

Ma-niac, Ma-niacHe's so coolMa-niac, Ma-niacDon't go to schoolRuns all night Runs all rightMa-niac, Ma-niacKissed a bull! By Jerry Spinelli

For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere. By Jerry Spinelli

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one. By Jerry Spinelli

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. By Jerry Spinelli

I mean if she's real, she's in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who's really like that is going to last around here? By Jerry Spinelli

When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light. By Jerry Spinelli

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

She laughed, and the desert sang. By Jerry Spinelli

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. By Jerry Spinelli

When somebody says or does something you like. Amen. By Jerry Spinelli

Strange territory for me: the after-snap. I still feel myself vibrating. Humming. By Jerry Spinelli

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

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies. By Jerry Spinelli

Happiness one last chance to happen? By Jerry Spinelli

Her voice came through the night, from the light, from the stars. By Jerry Spinelli

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

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original. By Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. By Jerry Spinelli

No When. No Then. Only Now. By Jerry Spinelli

You remember everything people say to you?'I locked into his eyes. 'Everything /some/ people say to me. By Jerry Spinelli

Beneath every goober is a kid. A person. Maybe he's not what you would call 'regular.' But so what? Is that a bad thing? By Jerry Spinelli

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone By Jerry Spinelli

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer. By Jerry Spinelli

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered By Jerry Spinelli

The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same By Jerry Spinelli

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else ... flying away ... flying away ... By Jerry Spinelli

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched By Jerry Spinelli

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. By Jerry Spinelli

War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people. By Jerry Spinelli

You" - he pointed at me - "are the black pearl. By Jerry Spinelli

His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway By Jerry Spinelli

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books. By Jerry Spinelli

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing. By Jerry Spinelli

He's so cute, I can't help myself. By Jerry Spinelli

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him. By Jerry Spinelli

Nothing's more fun than being carried away. By Jerry Spinelli

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled. By Jerry Spinelli

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. By Jerry Spinelli

That was fifteen years ago. Fifteen Valentine's Days. By Jerry Spinelli

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle. By Jerry Spinelli

She turned left when everyone else turned right. By Jerry Spinelli

Love makes its own magic. By Jerry Spinelli

(can forever have a now?) By Jerry Spinelli

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade By Jerry Spinelli

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book. By Jerry Spinelli

Heart and head are contrary historians. By Jerry Spinelli

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

She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back. By Jerry Spinelli

OK, so you're not perfect. Who is? By Jerry Spinelli

Still he had not cracked a smile, but his eyes were different now, they were here. By Jerry Spinelli

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations. By Jerry Spinelli

It seemed we were no longer separate, but were one. By Jerry Spinelli

I played Little League in junior high and high school. By Jerry Spinelli

When's the next star party?""Spring""Spring. Long time to wait.""The sky's not going anywhere. By Jerry Spinelli

When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled By Jerry Spinelli

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up. By Jerry Spinelli

But its coolness lies beneath its looks. By Jerry Spinelli

I like people who talk a lot. Since I don't. By Jerry Spinelli

Home is everything you can walk to. By Jerry Spinelli

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. By Jerry Spinelli

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

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books. By Jerry Spinelli

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused. By Jerry Spinelli

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep. By Jerry Spinelli

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer. By Jerry Spinelli

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

We were pretending, and everybody knew you didn't get hurt pretending. By Jerry Spinelli

did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door By Jerry Spinelli

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. By Jerry Spinelli

I became a children's author by accident. By Jerry Spinelli

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts. By Jerry Spinelli

Star people are rare. By Jerry Spinelli

For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled. By Jerry Spinelli

Every name is real. That's the nature of names. By Jerry Spinelli

hospital in Yuma. We By Jerry Spinelli

Events become feelings, feelings become events By Jerry Spinelli

Her smile put the sunflower to shame. By Jerry Spinelli

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

The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights. By Jerry Spinelli

His mind is trying to catch the thought as a cat tries to catch a shadow. By Jerry Spinelli

The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds By Jerry Spinelli

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

What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?''Why can't you be normal?''Why do you wanna be so different? By Jerry Spinelli

Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And By Jerry Spinelli

Letter from Mr. B:Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself? By Jerry Spinelli

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody. By Jerry Spinelli

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

He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it. By Jerry Spinelli

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings. By Jerry Spinelli

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands. By Jerry Spinelli

I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity. By Jerry Spinelli