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Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Jerry Spinelli

Birthname

Birthday: February 1, 1941

Educated At: Johns Hopkins University

Nationality: American, United States Of America

Occupations: Writer, Children's Writer

Total quotes: 4

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Tagged: heart, Mind, Understanding

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”

— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Tagged: Unpredictable, Elusive, uncertain

“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Tagged: Knowing Better, Questions

“You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”

— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Tagged: Living, Today, Future, tomorrow

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