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“A small cup of the deceivingly cheerful cherry-red syrup”
― Galaxy Craze, The Last Princess

“That’s when I realized that Heaven doesn’t exist in another place, and neither does Hell. It’s all here on Earth. We live them both, right here with one another. It’s just that sometimes we have to go through Hell to get to Heaven.”
― Galaxy Craze, The Last Princess

“He wanted me to believe in something. I believe in plenty of things, I thought with a bitter smile. I believed that I was going to die tomorrow.”
― Galaxy Craze, The Last Princess

“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

“She laughed, and the desert sang.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl