347 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

Every child’s bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher’s study.

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means “love of melons” or something. I looked it up. It means believing that “the self is the only reality.” Am I solipsist?

I’m that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don’t want things to happen-I’m talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I can’t look forward to them anymore. But there’s an upside, too. Once a wonderful thing is over, I’m not all that sad because then I can start thinking about it, reliving and reliving it in the virtual world in my head.

Someday in the far future, when the Milky Way has turned another cosmic click, will someone carry a chair to your grave site and keep you company forever? Can you imagine someone loving you that much?

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway.

Life is populated with scarecrows – all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn’t it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

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.

You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. 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! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl.

Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow.