And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl.
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what ...”
“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”
“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.”
“What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”
“Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.”
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.”
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”