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

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Adoration
Havens
Haven
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People

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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 America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
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Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
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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?
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I became a children's author by accident.
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Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
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Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said. What about it? Well, it's nice to get credit. The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. Is it? she said.
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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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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?
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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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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We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
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