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• In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

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  Cat, Dark, Opposites

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

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  Children, Important, Earth

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• Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line.

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  Stars, Laughter, Believe

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.107, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Durante todo el día, Stargirl había estado soltando dinero. Era la Johnny Appleseed del cambio suelto: un penique por aquí, una moneda por allá. Tirado en la acera, colocado en una estantería o en un banco. Incluso monedas de 25 centavos. "Odio el cambio", decía. "Es tan... tintineante". "¿Te das cuenta de cuánto debes tirar en un año?" Le dije. "¿Has visto la cara de un niño cuando ve un céntimo en la acera?".

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  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

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  Fall, Eye, Effort

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Pienso en la flor en capullo: acurrucada, comprimida, oscura. Sin embargo, de algún modo siente la noche, distingue la luna del sol. Espera... espera.

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  Flower, Dark, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Live today like there's no tomorrow!

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  Live For Today, Today, Tomorrow

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• The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

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  Long, Miracle, Lasts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.33, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

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  Nice, Sleep, People

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

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• Todos los días contengo la respiración hasta que la veo. A veces en clase, a veces en el pasillo. No puedo empezar a respirar hasta que la veo sonreírme. Siempre lo hace, pero al día siguiente siempre temo que no lo haga. En la comida temo que sonría más a BT que a mí. Tengo miedo de que le mire de alguna manera que a mí no me mira. Tengo miedo de que cuando me vaya a la cama por la noche siga preguntándome. Siempre tengo miedo. ¿Es eso el amor, miedo?

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  Night, Love Is, Breathing

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• Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

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  Father, Flower, Moon

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Me enseñó a deleitarme. Me enseñó a maravillarme. Me enseñó a reír. Mi sentido del humor siempre había estado a la altura del de los demás; pero yo, tímido e introvertido, lo mostraba con moderación: Era un sonriente. En su presencia, eché la cabeza hacia atrás y me reí a carcajadas por primera vez en mi vida.

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  Laughing, Firsts, Taught

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

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• I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

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  En

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

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  Race, Uncomfortable, Humans

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

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  Book, Reading, Surprise

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• Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

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  Niños, Pensar, Jugar

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• I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

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  War, Writing, College

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• Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

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  Kids, Writing, Thinking

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• Events become feelings, feelings become events

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  Feelings, Events

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.68, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

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  Music, Summer, Order

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Night, House, Finding Yourself

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

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  Rain, Wings, Broken

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• He's so cute, I can't help myself.

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  Cute, Helping, I Can

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.93, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Mother, Fall, Years

  Jerry Spinelli (2008). “Eggs”

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• When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

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  School, Tests, Lasts

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