347 Quotes by 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.

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

She was gone. She was serenity. Her lips faintly smiling. Her golden skin. The glowing thread-ends of her hair. She seemed to have been dipped iin sunlight and set here to dry. I felt a pang of jealousy, that she could be sitting next to me and not know it. That she could be somewhere most wonderful and I could not be there, too.

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that – because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

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

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

He tapped my chest. ‘Happy is here.’ He tapped his own chest. ‘Here.’ I looked down past my chin. ‘Inside?’ ‘Inside.’ It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it’s whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.

So,” he said, “we ourselves will be the candle flames.” He put his hands on his chest. “Feel your hearts, how warm they are.