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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

151. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

152. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

153. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.”

154. “Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn’t know it at the time. Maybe I didn’t either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it?”

155. “I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn’t know it at the time. Maybe I didn’t either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it?”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

156. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.”

157. “It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

158. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “When you’re inside your own story, you don’t see things like a reader. You don’t see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”

159. “When you’re inside your own story, you don’t see things like a reader. You don’t see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “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.”

160. “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.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.”

161. “Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.”

162. “Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “I’m pounding and kicking him and I’m all me and I’m kicking and kicking into the face that’s crying and begging for mercy, kicking, kicking... only for real, for cold ice real, it’s not my foot smashing his face to a pulp, but my stick smashing the puck into the board, and it’s not him crying, but me.”

163. “I’m pounding and kicking him and I’m all me and I’m kicking and kicking into the face that’s crying and begging for mercy, kicking, kicking... only for real, for cold ice real, it’s not my foot smashing his face to a pulp, but my stick smashing the puck into the board, and it’s not him crying, but me.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Killing the pigeons and putting them out of their misery stubbornly refused to mean the same thing. Palmer thought about misery, and it seemed to him that a shotgun was not the only way to end it. When Palmer was miserable, for example, his mother or father would hold him close and wipe his tears. When Palmer’s mother or father put him out of his misery, they did not shoot him, they offered him a cookie. Why then on Pigeon Day did the people bring guns instead of cookies?”

164. “Killing the pigeons and putting them out of their misery stubbornly refused to mean the same thing. Palmer thought about misery, and it seemed to him that a shotgun was not the only way to end it. When Palmer was miserable, for example, his mother or father would hold him close and wipe his tears. When Palmer’s mother or father put him out of his misery, they did not shoot him, they offered him a cookie. Why then on Pigeon Day did the people bring guns instead of cookies?”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Hey, this is it – right now! – the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don’t try new stuff?”

165. “Hey, this is it – right now! – the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don’t try new stuff?”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “In my mind, I’m writing for everybody.”

166. “In my mind, I’m writing for everybody.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “And there was more to her seeing than that. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”

167. “And there was more to her seeing than that. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Early on I learned, without anyone actually telling me, that in this world it is not enough just to be. You have to be something.”

168. “Early on I learned, without anyone actually telling me, that in this world it is not enough just to be. You have to be something.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere.”

169. “For months she had been everywhere, now she was nowhere.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Like everyone else, he is the star of his own life.”

170. “Like everyone else, he is the star of his own life.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life.”

171. “I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life.”

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Jerry Spinelli Quote: “Did you ever see a little kid’s face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?”

172. “Did you ever see a little kid’s face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?”

— Jerry Spinelli

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