This character appears in 12 books.
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Stargirl: Book 1Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl: I cant remember if she had a name at the moment but shes really weird and odd. she stands out alot.
Memorable Quotes by Stargirl:
“Why wait to feel great? Celebrate now.”
“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then--maybe--the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”
“Nobody has the time. The time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone.”
“It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.”
“It's my happy wagon. Actually, it could just as well be called an unhappy wagon, but I prefer happy. It's about how I feel. When something makes me happy, I put a pebble in the wagon. If I'm unhappy, I take a pebble out. There are twenty pebbles in all.”
“I pledge allegiance to United Turtles of America and to the fruit bats of Borneo, one planet in the Milky Way, incredible, with justice and black bean burritos for all.”
“I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn, I outgrow it, I change it.”
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Some of My Best Friends Are Books
Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School
by Judith Wynn Halsted
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Stargirl: Book 2Love, Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
Memorable Quotes by Stargirl:
“I thought: Someday I'm going to sing to that boy with the terrified eyes. I never did sing to you, Leo, not really. You, of all people. It's my biggest regret.... Now, see, I'm sad again.”
“My happy wagon is almost empty, Leo. Only five pebbles left. Happywise, I'm operating on only 25 percent capacity. Remember when I first showed my wagon to you? How many pebbles were in it then? Seventeen? And then I put another in, remember? I never told you this, but before I went to bed that night, after we kissed for the first time on the sidewalk outside my house, I put in the last two. Twenty. Total happiness. For the first time ever. It stayed that way until I painted that big sign on a sheet and hung it outside the school for all the world to see... Was that my mistake, Leo? Did overdo it? Did I scare you off? It seems like ever since I've been taking pebbles out of the wagon. And now it's down to five and I feel rotten and I don't know how to feel better.”
“First Kiss Day ♥”
“Every day brings a new memory of something we did a year ago. A parade of unhappy anniversaries.”
“Well, I hope you enjoyed your smuggies while they lasted because it's over now. Oh sure, I'll still be missing you as much as ever. I'll still smile at the memory of you. I'll still be--OK, I'll say it again--loving you, but I won't abandon myself for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself. I've reclaimed my future. If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you'll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half of me.”
“You said you sometimes go out to the enchanted place in the desert and take off your shoes and sit there like we did that first time. Only you don't meditate. You're not at all interested in erasing yourself or me. Oh no. Just the opposite. You close your eyes and you remember. You focus and you concentrate and you remember harder that you've ever remembered in your life, and pretty soon you're sure you can feel me there, sitting cross-legged across from you, smiling at you, Cinnamon in the space between us. You experience me. You relive us. You're so happy. And then so sad when you open your eyes and realize I'm not really there. That's when you miss me the most. Desperately.”
“Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies in separate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...aflutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue.... Tell me you whispered my name.”
“The boy in my heart ♥”
“Lightning flashed white in the kitchen. I had a goofy thought: Did God just take our picture?”
“I still love you. I don't love Perry.”
“Sometimes life goes its own way and drags you along.”
“The First Kiss. The Forever Kiss. ♥”
“The sunrise of my own personal Solstice. ♥”
“We Arnolds, our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. But I no longer hope to be found, Leo. Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where 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 tomorrow. 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! Love and Love and Love Again,”
“But my heart doesn't care about sense. My heart never says: Why? Only: Who?”
“As he jabbered on, I began to understand that he was doing more than talking, more than simply remembering. He was reliving, in a way that can only be done by sharing with someone else.”
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