Wise Girl

“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.
In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...
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.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Some nights, we were a city of two.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed