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As we meandered, she said my name three times: Stargirl? Yes? That was better than TV. It was. Stargirl? Yes? Does the sun do that everyday? Yes. Stargirl? Yes? Everyday is sun day.

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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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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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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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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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.
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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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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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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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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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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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We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
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