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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Trouble
Lasts
Last
Long
Miracles
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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 felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.
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I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
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Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
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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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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.
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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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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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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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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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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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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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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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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?
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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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