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Stargirl

It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless

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Jerry Spinelli (5)

“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

— Jerry Spinelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Getting To Know

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Unpredictable, Elusive, uncertain

“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

— Jerry Spinelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowing Better, Questions

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

— Jerry Spinelli, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Mind, Understanding

“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…”

— Jerry Spinelli, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Today, Future, tomorrow