Smiles to Go Quotes

“I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“And smiles to go before I weep,
And Smiles to go before I weep.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can't start breathing until I see her smile at me. She always does, but the next day I'm always afraid she won't. At lunch I'm afraid she'll smile more at BT than at me. 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, Smiles to Go

“He doesn't think. He just does.

A nonthinking doer.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Beware of solipsism

Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality."

Am I solipsist?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I can't look forward to them anymore. But there's an upside, too. Once a wonderful thing is over, I'm not all that sad because then I can start thinking about it, reliving and reliving it in the virtual world in my head.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone.
What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“MRI good... X-ray good... blood work good..."

If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Mr, B, what's wrong with me?"
[...]
"Nothing. You're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers, that's all.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“When's the next star party?"
"Spring"
"Spring. Long time to wait."
"The sky's not going anywhere.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Letter from Mr. B:

Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“But its coolness lies beneath its looks.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...
Then ... ues what? ...
There will be no end of me!”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“I had to get out. Move.

I ran through neighborhoods, other lives, other worlds. Solipsism. A man on his lawn mower. Green and yellow. A high-school kid with earphones, washing his car, suds creeping down the driveway. High in the bright blue sky the moon showed like a fading fingerprint. It seemed so weak, so out of place, as if it stumbled into broad daylight by mistake. Unseen protons dying by the billions.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“The protons are dead, nothing will ever be the same”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“I'm always afraid. Is that what love is—fear?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“Strange territory for me: the after-snap. I still feel myself vibrating. Humming.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“No matter what day it is, no matter what time, no matter where I am - I'm always at the star party, staring at the slhouette on the crest of the hill, whishing that one dark shape would split in two. But it never does.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go

“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, Smiles to Go