Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up. 

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Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. 

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Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 Who are you?'

I didn't understand the question.

I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'

I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.
 

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Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 They don't live here. They live in Heaven.'

Where's that?'

I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.'

What's Washington America?'

Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
 

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Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'

I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'

'Inside.'

It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.
 

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