Citas de Jerry Spinelli

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  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Hate, Learning

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• Vive hoy. No ayer. No mañana. Sólo hoy. Habita tus momentos. No los alquiles al mañana.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Inspiring, Yesterday And Today

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.222, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Perfection, Waiting, Glitches

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Communication, Might, Diamond

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• ¿Por qué encajar cuando has nacido para destacar?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Individuality, Fit, Standing Out

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• A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Strong, Love Is, Keys

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• Cruza el arroyo por los escalones de tus fallas.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stones, Creeks, Stepping Stones

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• Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Feelings, Calendars, Timetables

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• Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Voice, Track

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• One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Moving, Waiting, Shy

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Home, Long, Gone

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ¿Por qué envolvemos las cosas? Normalmente para protegerlas. Cuanto más frágiles son, más importante es el envoltorio. Tu sueño es presa de muchos peligros. Puede romperse bajo los golpes de la crítica, evaporarse con el calor de la competencia, hundirse en las profundidades sin fondo de la indiferencia de los demás. Cuida tu sueño. Protégelo como a un polluelo caído. Hasta el día en que él -y tú- vuelen.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Blow, Competition

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• Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Care, Chance

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• She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

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  Light, Stargirl, Corners

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Motivational, Cheating, Morning

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• Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Fire, Lasts, Facts

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Adoration, Havens

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.44, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Light, Tears, Cry

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• Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Orange, Mind, Ceilings

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Milkweed”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• Do not follow me! 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 tommorrow. 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!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sweet, Stars, Destiny

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Love, Stargirl”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• Home is everything you can walk to.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Home, Walks

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• This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Children, Ghetto, Grows

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• Se repetían a sí mismos que estaba sola y que seguramente no bailaba en brazos de nadie, pero de algún modo eso parecía importarles cada vez menos. A medida que avanzaba la noche, y el clarinete y el canto del coyote se mezclaban más allá de la luz de la linterna, la magia de sus propias chaquetas azules y orquídeas parecía desvanecerse, y les llegaban pequeñas sensaciones de que estaban más solos que ella.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, Light, Blue

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

  Jerry Spinelli

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• Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sunflower, Her Smile, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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