347 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

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.

You are truly focused when you’re so focused that you don’t know you’re focused.

Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?

The blanket was there, but it was the boy’s embrace that covered and warmed him.

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.

A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.

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.

She wasn’t gorgeous, wasn’t ugly. A sprinkle of freckles crossed the bridge of her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things, She wore no makeup, and her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer’s eyes caught in headlights.

The trouble with miracles is, they don’t last long. And the trouble with bad times is, you can’t sleep through them.