Quotes About Stargirl

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

Jerry Spinelli

#2. As we meandered, she said my name three times:
"Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"That was better than TV."
"It was."
"Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"Does the sun do that everyday?"
"Yes."
"Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"Everyday is sun day.

Jerry Spinelli

#3. Remember Ping-fa, Sun Tzu,' Art of War - read between the lines: kick ass and take names later."

Mad
Stargirl

Linden Morningstar

#4. My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The initial inspiration was there, but Stargirl has taken on a life of her own. She's her own character now.

Geoff Johns

#5. Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

Jerry Spinelli

#6. I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.
Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

#7. When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. 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! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

William Gibson

#10. Hell is full of polite men with bone saws.

Miles Watson

#11. 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?

Jerry Spinelli

#12. Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Elbert Hubbard

#13. I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

#14. I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Michael Scott

#16. So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It started when the earth was born." Her eyes were closed. Her face was golden in the setting sun. "It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

Jerry Spinelli

#17. Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!

Robert Louis Stevenson

#18. Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

Grady Booch

#19. I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag
it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

Jerry Spinelli

#21. Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

#22. Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

Jerry Spinelli

#23. She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'
Maybe that explains it,' I said.

Jerry Spinelli

#24. 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.

Jerry Spinelli

#25. We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

F. Sionil Jose

#26. You don't know with who you are having to deal with...

you just sign the contract to die

Deyth Banger

#27. You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

Jerry Spinelli

#28. As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

Jerry Spinelli

#29. I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Andy Summers

#30. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.

Kim Holden

#31. It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too old to believe either.

Elle Alexander

#32. Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.

Katelyn S. Bolds