Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

"She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing"I walked in a gray world of nothing."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."

"She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."

"When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."