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
Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. - Jerry Spinelli
Friendship isn't always sunnyside up. - Jerry Spinelli
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
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. - Jerry Spinelli