When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled
Jerry SpinelliIt’s a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.
Jerry SpinelliTags: writing rejection jerry-spinelli
Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.
Jerry SpinelliIf you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.
Jerry SpinelliLive today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?
You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.
Tags: inspirational live-in-the-moment today
At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's plastic Baggie. He believes that stars fall from the sky sometimes, and that his mother goes around collecting them like acorns. He believes she has to use heavy gloves and dark sunglasses because the fallen stars are so hot and shiny. She puts them in the freezer for forty-five minutes, and when they come out they are flat and silver and sticky on the back and ready for his shirts.
Jerry SpinelliTags: nostalgia stars night childhood believe
It seemed we were no longer separate, but were one.
Jerry SpinelliThat was fifteen years ago. Fifteen Valentine's Days.
Jerry SpinelliI understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?
Jerry SpinelliTags: thinking affection value understanding-oneself-and-others
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
Jerry SpinelliTags: to-think-about
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