{"author":"Jerry Spinelli","author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...A flutter in the heart...A shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...Tell me you whispered my name.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["books","stargirl"],"id":10269,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["belief","fear"],"id":25995,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"March 12Dear Stargirl,  Hey, you're a big girl now. Stop being such a baby. You think you're the only one who's ever lost a boyfriend? Boyfriends are a dime a dozen. You want to talk loss, look at all the loss around you. How about the man in the red and yellow plaid scarf? He lost Grace. BELOVED WIFE. I'll bet they were married over 50 years. You barely had 50 days with Leo. And you have the gall to be sad in the same world as that man. Betty Lou. She's lost the confidence to leave her house. Look at you. Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And Alvina the floor sweeper-she hates herself, and it seems she's got plenty of company. All she's losing is her childhood, her future, a worldful of people who will never be her friends. How would you like to trade places with her? Oh yes, lets not forget the footshuffling guy at the stone piles. Moss-green pom-pom. What did he say to you? 'Are you looking for me?' It seems like he hasn't lost much, has he? Only...HIMSELF!  Now look at you, sniveling like a baby over some immature kid in Arizona who didn't know what a prize he had, who tried to remake you into somebody else, who turned his back to you and left you to the wolves, who hijacked your heart and didn't even ask you to the Ocotillo Ball. What don't you understand about the message? Hel-loooo? Anybody home in there? You have your whole life ahead of you, and all your doing is looking back. Grow up, girl. There are some things they don't teach you in homeschool. Your Birth Certificate Self, Susan Caraway.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["boyfriends","loss","stargirll"],"id":30467,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"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!","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["brave","hopeful","sad","sweet"],"id":30705,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["humor","metaphor"],"id":38571,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["adorable","love","recovery"],"id":41826,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["children","ghetto","milkweed","warsaw"],"id":50186,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["individuality","nonconformity","single-life","stargirl"],"id":58448,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["hate"],"id":71051,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["inspirational","live-in-the-moment","today"],"id":87193,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}