Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

About Jerry Spinelli:

Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for Maniac Magee and Wringer.
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He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and ...

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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.

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It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

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If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ... Then ... ues what? ... There will be no end of me!

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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 Ame...

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Some nights, we were a city of two.

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He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

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

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

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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

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It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the s...

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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 turtle.

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At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's plastic Baggie. He believes that stars fall from the sky sometimes, and that his mother goes around collecting them like acorns. He believe...

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if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

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Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

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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 orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinie...

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The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who was I to spoil it? Snow falls. Earth says: Here's a gift for you. And what do we do? We shovel it. Blow it. Scrape it. Plow it. Get it out of our way. ...

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

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A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It’s never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart and al...

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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 orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reun...

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Author Bio

  • NameJerry Spinelli
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornFebruary 1, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksStargirl; Wringer