If any of you have read Jerry Spinelli's classic novel, I'd like to talk with you. Stargirl was one of those books I read when I was younger and it left a huge impression on me... but to this day I can't tell you exactly why. There is something about the character Stargirl that I want to emulate, but I'm not even sure I can emulate her because she may just be a metaphor for something. I'm going to give it some more thought and get back to you.
In the meantime, here are some quotes from Stargirl and Love, Stargirl (the sequal) for your reading pleasure:
"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 (Love, Stargirl)
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 (Love, Stargirl)
"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."
"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 (Love, Stargirl)
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)
"Nothing’s more fun than being carried away."
"This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians."
— Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)
— Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)
"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
— Jerry Spinelli
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