Itโs really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. Thereโs a whole commotion going on inside us.
Jerry SpinelliIt was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
Jerry SpinelliDo 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 SpinelliYou occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
Jerry SpinelliShe taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
Jerry Spinelli