Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ch 16 quotes
pg 76- "a baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? So why did this one feel like the first?"
Ch 14 Quotes
pg 68- "head and heart are contrary historians."
pg 72-" she flung her defiance at our gloom"
pg 72-" she flung her defiance at our gloom"
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Ch 11 quotes
pg 49- "when they gave her the pleated skirt they created a cheerleader they never imagined."
pg 50- "We wagged our heads and agreed what a goofy girl this was, maybe even officially crazy, but we walked away smiling and maybe not saying but all thinking the same thing: it felt good to get credit."
pg 51- " Suddenly we were no longer comfortable with losing. In fact we forgot how to lose."
pg 52- "Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. Our bad things stuck very much to her."
pg 50- "We wagged our heads and agreed what a goofy girl this was, maybe even officially crazy, but we walked away smiling and maybe not saying but all thinking the same thing: it felt good to get credit."
pg 51- " Suddenly we were no longer comfortable with losing. In fact we forgot how to lose."
pg 52- "Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. Our bad things stuck very much to her."
Ch 10 quotes
pg 43- "behind the dazzling talents and differentness, she was far more normal than I had realized."
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ch 9 Quotes
pg 40- "It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around."
pg 40- "It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against."
pg 41- "The pronoun "we" seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces."
pg 40- "It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against."
pg 41- "The pronoun "we" seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces."
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Ch 7 Quotes
Pg 32- "On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were."
Pg 33- "An act? No. If anybody is acting, it's us. She's real as"- he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up-"as real as Barney."
Pg 35- "You'll know her more by your questions than her answers."
Pg 33- "An act? No. If anybody is acting, it's us. She's real as"- he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up-"as real as Barney."
Pg 35- "You'll know her more by your questions than her answers."
Ch 5 Quotes
pg 25- "Still, to us she was not truly a cheerleader, but Stargirl dressed like one."
pg 26- "At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to measure her against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get too close."
pg 26- "At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to measure her against. She was unknown territory. Unsafe. We were afraid to get too close."
Ch 3 Quotes
pg 15- "She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school."
pg 15-"She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest smell of 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."
pg 15-"She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest smell of 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."
Ch 2 Quotes
pg 7- "She's not real," Hillari said. She was sneering. "She's an actress. It's a scam."
pg 8- "I had to admit, the more I saw of her, the easier it was to believe she was a plant, a joke, anything but real."
pg 11- "We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy". Her ways knocked us off balance."
pg 8- "I had to admit, the more I saw of her, the easier it was to believe she was a plant, a joke, anything but real."
pg 11- "We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy". Her ways knocked us off balance."
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