She was gone. She was serenity. Her lips faintly smiling. Her golden skin. The glowing thread-ends of her hair. She seemed to have been dipped iin sunlight and set here to dry. I felt a pang of jealousy, that she could be sitting next to me and not know it. That she could be somewhere most wonderful and I could not be there, too.

— Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli Quotes

There was a sense that things – words, feelings, laughs – were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out. Now, beside me, I sensed... emptiness. Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous.” -Cammie.

— 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?

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Jerry Spinelli

I could feel it in myself. I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away... I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. The pronoun ‘we’ itself seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces.

— Jerry Spinelli

And I think every once in a while someone comes along who is a little more primitive than the rest of us, a little closer to our beginnings, a little more in touch with the stuff we’re made of.

— Jerry Spinelli

For hours I lay under my sheet of moonlight. Her voice came through the night, from the light, from the stars.

— Jerry Spinelli

She taught me to revel She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh.

— Jerry Spinelli

When you’re nothing, you’re free to believe anything.

— Jerry Spinelli

Killing the pigeons and putting them out of their misery stubbornly refused to mean the same thing. Palmer thought about misery, and it seemed to him that a shotgun was not the only way to end it. When Palmer was miserable, for example, his mother or father would hold him close and wipe his tears. When Palmer’s mother or father put him out of his misery, they did not shoot him, they offered him a cookie. Why then on Pigeon Day did the people bring guns instead of cookies?

— Jerry Spinelli

For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere.

— Jerry Spinelli

He said he would try, but I guess he never got the chance. About the last thing I remember him saying was “Don’t worry so much about it. It’s not the sneakers that count, it’s the feet.

— Jerry Spinelli

She wasn’t gorgeous, wasn’t ugly. A sprinkle of freckles crossed the bridge of her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things, She wore no makeup, and her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer’s eyes caught in headlights.

— Jerry Spinelli

Did you ever see a little kid’s face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?

— Jerry Spinelli

But those pictures and those moments are posed and smiling. They’re not as real as this.

— Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the fanciest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.

— Jerry Spinelli

And there was more to her seeing than that. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

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Like everyone else, he is the star of his own life.

— Jerry Spinelli

Enchanted places cannot be created, they can only be discovered.

— Jerry Spinelli

I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life.

— Jerry Spinelli
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