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Star people are rare.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Rare
Star
Stars
People

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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.
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She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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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.
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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.
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The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.
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I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.
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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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
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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.
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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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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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