"Stargirl" Quotes
A nonconformist girl named Stargirl transforms an Arizona high school with her unique personality and unconventional behavior.
young adult | 186 pages | Published in 2001
Quotes
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.
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
It was a simple love, I would not have traded it for anything. And then, when it ended, I knew that somehow that love would live on.
She was the one I could tell my dreams to. In fact, she was the dream, the one in my head and heart all the time, the one I was in love with.
The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
The snow fell in silence, in a sky of yellow parchment.
She was a miracle. She was an anthem sung by angels. She sparkled. She pulled at the air and made colors appear.
I think what I want most of all is to disappear. I think in a few years, when I grow up, I will get a little place in the woods, and I will be mostly alone.
I did not have a name I wanted to share with her, and if I did, I surely would have been too embarrassed to tell her.
I was mesmerized, desperate to follow her into her world.





