Ricciuti Spinelli Quotes

I became a children's author by accident. ~ Jerry Spinelli

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle. ~ Jerry Spinelli

There was a sense that things - words, feelings, laughs - were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out. Now, beside me, I sensed... emptiness. Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous." -Cammie ~ Jerry Spinelli

Okay, so you're not perfect. Who is?
Sure, Susan makes sense. But my heart doesn't care about sense. My heart never says: _Why?_ Only: _Who?_ ~ Jerry Spinelli

Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don't mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss. ~ Jerry Spinelli

And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, but I never did. In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so
I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever
we could, we rode side by side.
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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 ~ Jerry Spinelli

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year. ~ Jerry Spinelli

For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper? ~ Jerry Spinelli

Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'? ~ Jerry Spinelli

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer. ~ Jerry Spinelli

She wanted defiance in her face, and I wanted to wipe it away with a fuck so hard we'd both break. ~ C.D. Reiss

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.
~ Jerry Spinelli

You liked me."
I smiled.
"You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me."
I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after."
She laughed, and the desert sang. ~ Jerry Spinelli

He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it. ~ Jerry Spinelli

In the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture them waiting at the bus stop together crying. ~ Jerry Spinelli

You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength."
When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman."
"She was," Anna murmured, near tears again.
"So are you. ~ Nora Roberts

His mind is trying to catch the thought as a cat tries to catch a shadow. ~ Jerry Spinelli

I'm pounding and kicking him and I'm all me and I'm kicking and kicking into the face that's crying and begging for mercy, kicking, kicking ... only for real, for cold ice real, it's not my foot smashing his face to a pulp, but my stick smashing the puck into the board, and it's not him crying, but me. ~ Jerry Spinelli

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. ~ Jerry Spinelli

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer. ~ Jerry Spinelli

My happy wagon is almost empty, Leo. Only five pebbles left. Happywise, I'm operating on only 25 percent capacity. Remember when I first showed my wagon to you? How many pebbles were in it then? Seventeen? And then I put another in, remember? I never told you this, but before I went to bed that night, after we kissed for the first time on the sidewalk outside my house, I put in the last two pebbles. Twenty. Total happiness. For the first time ever. It stayed that way until I painted that big sign on a sheet and hung it outside the school for all the world to see ... ~ Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. ~ Jerry Spinelli

When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light. ~ Jerry Spinelli

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And ~ Jerry Spinelli

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Strange territory for me: the after-snap. I still feel myself vibrating. Humming. ~ Jerry Spinelli