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When I Was the Greatest QUOTES

When I Was the Greatest QUOTES

1 " I felt good. I felt like, somehow, we were all winning. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

2 " He always walks like the sidewalk was put there just for his feet. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

3 " You love first, and that's always a good thing. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

4 " I ain't got enough mad for both of y'all, so since you my responsibility, I'm gonna save all the mad for you. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

5 " So I couldn't help but worry, even when I felt like he didn't deserve my worry anymore. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

6 " It had been a few days since everything went down, and when you're used to hanging out with a person every single day, a few days off can sometimes seem more like a few months. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

7 " The church up the block was just letting out. All the old ladies with the big hats and mustaches came stepping out like the sidewalk was a runway. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

8 " That's when Doris would pull out the A to Z thing, and the way she said it made it seem like if we didn't get to point Z quickly, she was going to B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J all up and down our butts. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest

9 " John sat there for a second. He wiped some of the tired off his face. "

― Jason Reynolds , When I Was the Greatest