Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

Some nights, we were a city of two.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.