quotes
“DeVante. Khalil. Neither of them thought they had much of a choice. If I were them, I’m not sure I’d make a much better one” (239).
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After finally learning why Khalil started dealing drugs, Starr couldn't find it in her to be angry at him. We never know exactly why someone performs the actions that they do. There are so many sides to every story, and it is impossible for someone to know all of those sides. It is never clear as day what people are going through, and it is unfair to judge before knowing the circumstances completely.
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“Your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be the roses that grow in the concrete” (443).
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right” (154).
"...people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. i think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right” (59).