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Quotes About Emotion

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?
~ Jerry Spinelli
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
It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
~ Jerry Spinelli
To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh?
~ Jerry Spinelli
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Love makes its own magic.
~ Jerry Spinelli
She was gone. She was serenity. Her lips faintly smiling. Her golden skin. The glowing thread-ends of her hair. She seemed to have been dipped iin sunlight and set here to dry. I felt a pang of jealousy, that she could be sitting next to me and not know it. That she could be somewhere most wonderful and I could not be there, too.
~ Jerry Spinelli
There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Every day brings a new memory of something we did a year ago. A parade of unhappy anniversaries.
~ Jerry Spinelli
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
~ Jerry Spinelli
His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.
~ Jerry Spinelli
When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I'm always afraid. Is that what love is—fear?
~ Jerry Spinelli
In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
~ Jerry Spinelli
He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I'm afraid she'll look at him in some way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is— fear?
~ Jerry Spinelli
I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear...
~ Jerry Spinelli
And there was more to her seeing than that. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
~ Jerry Spinelli
They stood staring at each other's face, the only place their eyes were safe.
~ Jerry Spinelli
was revolted and spellbound at the same time. Movies didn't get much better than that.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Still he had not cracked a smile, but his eyes were different now, they were here.
~ Jerry Spinelli