Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Some of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite books!

• "She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends yet she was the friendliest person in school."
• "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew."
• "At the same time we held back. Because she was so different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get to close."
• "I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear..."
• "'On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.'"
• "'Every name is real. That's the nature of names."
• "Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know."
• "It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against. For ourselves."
• "INDIVIDUALITY ERUPTS"
• "The pronoun "we" itself seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces."
• "Head and heart are contrary historians."