Space Station Seventh Grade Quotes

“The whole universe was eyes. It’s like a million people are waiting hours just for me and I finally come out onto a balcony and everybody is staring up because I don’t have any clothes on. My butt felt like the Hindenberg and there was this elephant trunk hanging down in front of me. I was afraid to look down at it.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Space Station Seventh Grade

“The teachers don’t run this place, neither does the principal. It’s the ninth-graders. You can tell a ninth-grader a lot of ways, like size and deep voice and all, but the main way you can tell them is in their eyes. They don’t see you. It’s like they’re blind to the sight of seventh-graders. They’re always talking loud and laughing to each other and shoving each other, and their eyes are always off in the distance; always down the hallway somewhere like they’re looking for more ninth-graders or girls or something. If you’re a seventh-grader, a puny little kid even for them, you’re invisible.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Space Station Seventh Grade

“I wish I was back in the sixth grade. I was important there. I’m nothing here. I’m a turd.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Space Station Seventh Grade

“I can’t believe it. Summer’s almost over. Summer has a funnel shape. It seems real wide at first and deep. Slow. Like it will last forever. You just float on top of it.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Space Station Seventh Grade

“Was this really happening? Did my stepfather really drag me out of bed at 7:00 in the morning on my summer vacation so I could stand in the kitchen in my underpants and stare down a row of chicken bones?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Space Station Seventh Grade