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Ghost (Track, #1) QUOTES

Ghost (Track, #1) QUOTES

1 " You can't run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

2 " Trouble is, you can't run away from yourself." Coach snatched the towel from his shoulder, folded into a perfect square, and set it in the space between us. "Unfortunately," he said, "ain't nobody that fast. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

3 " Little. Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little. Hear me? "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

4 " ...and even though he said we were telling secrets that we were all going to keep, I had learned a long time ago that adults played by different rules. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

5 " Because for something to make you feel tough, you gotta be a little bit scared of it at first. Then you gotta beat it." -Ghost "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

6 " 1 WORLD RECORDS CHECK THIS OUT. This dude named Andrew Dahl holds the world record for blowing up the most balloons . . . with his nose. Yeah. That’s true. Not sure how he found out that was some kinda special talent, and I can’t even imagine how much snot be in those balloons, but hey, it’s a thing and Andrew’s the best at it. There’s also this lady named Charlotte Lee who holds the record for owning the most rubber ducks. No lie. Here’s what’s weird about that: Why would you even want one rubber duck, let alone 5,631? I mean, come on. And me, well, I probably hold the world record for knowing about the most world records. That, and for eating the most sunflower seeds. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

7 " Show you that you can’t run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

8 " Like, for me, the best way to describe it is, I got a lot of scream inside. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

9 " What is it about adults that makes them all just say the same things? Like they all studied the same book about grown-up-ness, memorizing phrases like, *Does it make it right?* and *Be the bigger person*" -Ghost "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

10 " And then . . . BOOM! "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

11 " Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little." -Mr. Charles "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

12 " My dad’s in jail for trying to shoot me and my mother,” I blurted. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)

13 " So when I was done sitting at the bus stop in front of the gym, and came across all those kids on the track at the park, practicing, I had to go see what was going on, because running ain’t nothing I ever had to practice. It’s just something I knew how to do. "

― Jason Reynolds , Ghost (Track, #1)