Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Every name is real. That’s the nature of names.

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?

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?

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

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur…us to achieve great things.

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

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn’t keep falling in.

They don’t live here. They live in Heaven.’ Where’s that?’ I don’t know,’ I said. ‘Enos says it’s right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it’s in Russia. Olek says Washington America.’ What’s Washington America?’ Enos says it’s a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

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?

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life… We discovered the color of each other’s eyes.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.