347 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back.

I feel like I’m playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don’t know where things are. I can’t figure out tomorrow.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the fanciest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.

I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn’t care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.

I became a children’s author by accident.

Like so many of Archie’s words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade.

I mean if she’s real, she’s in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who’s really like that is going to last around here?