Jerry Spinelli Quotes

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

~ Jerry Spinelli

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

~ Jerry Spinelli

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.

~ Jerry Spinelli

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

~ Jerry Spinelli

He still heard his mother's voice--Davey--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

~ Jerry Spinelli

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

~ Jerry Spinelli

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

~ Jerry Spinelli

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

~ Jerry Spinelli

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever (Hey, nobody here but us angels!) ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!

~ Jerry Spinelli

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

~ Jerry Spinelli

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David's mother loved him, and sometimes David feels that same love he used to, except now it's coming from other places, other people, and it's a good thing the love is coming because he's beginning to think there aren't enough rules in the universe to bring his mother back.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

~ Jerry Spinelli