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On the Come Up QUOTES

1 " All right now, y’all,” Granddaddy says to us. That’s his way of saying good morning. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

2 " I knew it was a daily fight for her to stay clean. I just didn’t realize I was the reason she fights. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

3 " I guess Curtis is cute in the same way rodents are weirdly adorable? You know how you’ll see a baby mouse and will be like, ‘Aw, cute!’ Until that bitch is raiding your cabinet, eating the Halloween candy you hid from your little sisters.” “That’s oddly specific. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

4 " Sonny shows me his phone. It’s a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna meet up? My mouth drops. “Seriously?” “Seriously,” Sonny says. “Holy shit.”

There’s one problem though. “Why haven’t you responded?” “I don’t know,” he says. “Part of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he’s really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom’s basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?” I stare at him.
“The specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

5 " Aunt Pooh doesn’t go from zero to one hundred—she goes from chill to ready to kill. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

6 " I was floating after my battle, for real. That feeling when the crowd cheered for me is probably what getting high is like, and I'm addicted. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

7 " Les bons et les mauvais souvenirs ont en commun de rester gravés. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

8 " French braids. Are they cute? Yeah. Is it a process? Unfortunately. They’re so tight I can feel my thoughts. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

9 " .I mean, it's one thing to wanna do something. It's another to think it's possible. Rapping has been my dream forever, but dreams aren't real. You wake up from them or reality makes them seem stupid. Trust, every time my fridge is almost empty, all of my dreams seem stupid. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

10 " Done up. The good news? A lot rhymes with “done up.” The bad news? A lot rhymes with “done up. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

11 " Jay aime les gens. Moi je suis plutôt du genre "OK, ils existent, mais je suis pas obligée de leur parler "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

12 " Ouais, les gens nous laissent tomber, Bri. Mais ça veut pas dire qu'on est seuls. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

13 " I’ll always be my dad’s daughter if nothing else. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

14 " After our date on Monday, I put the heart-eyes emoji next to his name in my contacts. I mean, the boy brought me flowers and a Storm comic, and since we didn’t have time to stay for dessert at the restaurant, he brought me
a small pack of Chips Ahoy! to eat on the way back to school. He earned those heart eyes. He just sent a couple of texts to guarantee that he keeps them.

Do your thing tonight, Princess. Wish I could be there. I probably couldn’t pay attention to your song tho I’d be staring at you too hard

Corny? Yes. But it gets a smile out of me.
Before I can respond, though, he adds:

I’d be staring at that ass too but you know I probably ain’t supposed to admit that.

I smirk.

Why you admitting it now then?

His answer?

Cause I bet it made you smile

Just for that, I’m adding a second heart-eyes emoji to his name. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

15 " That’s what we call our goal, the come up. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

16 " Pendant que certains et certaines parmi nous ont peur de l'impact que des chansons pourraient avoir sur nos enfants, d'autres parents sont terrifiés à l'idée que ceux et celles qui sont censés protéger leurs enfants pourrait leur faire du mal. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

17 " - Respire.

J'y arrive pas. C'est comme si mon corps savait même plus ce que ça voulait dire, mais il connaît encore le verbe pleurer. Des larmes coulent sur mes joues. Les sanglots me font hoqueter. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

18 " Some people say that your life flashes before your eyes in moments like this. But for me, all the stuff I haven’t done flashes before mine. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

19 " Jay’s a people person. I’m more of a “yes, people exist, but that doesn’t mean I need to talk to them” person. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up

20 " That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them. "

― Angie Thomas , On the Come Up