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Events become feelings, feelings become events

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Events
Feelings
Become

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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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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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Star people are rare.
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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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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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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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Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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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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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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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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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
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When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
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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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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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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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