Top 280 Angie Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Aunt Pooh doesn’t go from zero to one hundred – she goes from chill to ready to kill.”

— Angie Thomas

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

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204. “Even if he was, I knew that boy. Watched him grow up with you. He was more than any bad decision he made,” he says. “I hate that I let myself fall into that mind-set of trying to rationalize his death. And at the end of the day, you don’t kill someone for opening a car door.”

— Angie Thomas

205. “I don’t try to see who got shot or who did it. You can’t snitch if you don’t know anything.”

— Angie Thomas

206. “I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”

— Angie Thomas

207. “By any means necessary didn’t keep Brother Malcolm from dying, possibly at the hands of his own people.”

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208. “But we can’t,” he says, voice strained. “Not like this.” “Why not?” I slip my hand in his pants, heading for the bulge. “Because you’re not in a good place.”

— Angie Thomas

209. “That’s what we call our goal, the come up.”

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210. “One of my baby photos smiles back at me, permanently etched on his arm with Something to live for, something to die for written beneath it. Seven and Sekani are on his other arm with the same words beneath them. Love letters in the simplest form.”

— Angie Thomas

211. “Folks kill me, thinking they know what I think.”

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212. “My parents have this thing where they never want me or my brothers to talk to somebody without looking them in their eyes. They claim that a person’s eyes say more than their mouth, and that it goes both ways – if we look someone in their eyes and mean what we say, they should have little reason to doubt us.”

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213. “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

214. “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

215. “Forget what anyone expects: the only person I have to truly worry about is me.”

— Angie Thomas

216. “God gave you a brain. You don’t need theirs.”

— Angie Thomas

217. “Who said talking isn’t doing something?’ she says. It’s more productive than silence.”

— Angie Thomas

218. “He always has it on the Friday of spring break because you need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.”

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219. “Momma thinks coming to Uncle Carlos’s house is normal, but Chris is the kind of normal I really want. The normal where I don’t have to choose which Starr to be.”

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220. “Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, I drag myself into this classroom and hand my phone over to Mrs. Murray. Usually I’m cool with an entire hour of not knowing what the president tweeted.”

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221. “How he could sell the very stuff that took his momma from him? Did he realize that he was taking somebody else’s momma from them?”

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222. “What’s it about this time?” I ask. “Pop Tarts,” Britt says. Hailey turns to us and points at Luke. “This jerk actually said they’re better warmed up in the microwave.” “Eww,” I say, instead of my usual “Ill,” and Maya goes, “Are you serious?”

— Angie Thomas

223. “With me living forty-five minutes away, Tumblr is supposed to be sacred ground where our friendship is cemented. Unfollowing me is the same as saying, ‘I don’t like you anymore.”

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224. “A good garden needs good conversation.”

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225. “Good.” He gets the grapes out the refrigerator. “You still got that old laptop? The one you had before we bought you that expensive-ass fruit one?” I laugh. “It’s an Apple MacBook, Daddy.” “It damn sure wasn’t the price of an apple. Anyway, you got the old one?”

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226. “Toen ik twaaf was, wilden mijn ouders twee keer ergens over praten. Het ene gesprek ging uiteraard over de bloemetjes en bijtjes. Het andere gesprek ging over wat ik moest doen als ik werd aangehouden door de politie.”

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227. “And the thing about the stank-eye is at some point you feel it on you, inviting you to kick some ass or have your ass kicked.”

— Angie Thomas

228. “Her name just HAD to be Karen,’ Sonny says. ‘Bet she puts raisins in her potato salad.’ I smirk, and we cross our arms over our chests. Wakanda forever.”

— Angie Thomas

229. “You know how many rich white folks come to the courthouse on drug possession?” “A whole lot,” says Jay. “Too many,” Aunt ‘Chelle says. “Every single one gets a little slap on the wrist and goes right back into society, like it’s all good. Black folks or poor folks get on drugs?” “We’re ruined for life,” Jay says.”

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230. “High school ain’t the end or the beginning. It ain’t even in the middle. You ’bout to do big things, whether they see it or not. I see it. Everybody last night saw it. Long as you see it, that’s all that matters.”

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231. “Yeah, people get killed around here, and nah, it’s not always by the police, but Jay says this was like having a stranger come in your house, steal one of your kids, and blame you for it because your family was dysfunctional, while the whole world judges you for being upset.”

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232. “I told you guys my grandparents visited, and it was their first time celebrating Thanksgiving. Hailey asked if we ate a cat. Because we’re Chinese.” Ho-ly.”

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233. “When you’re a kid in a one-bedroom in the projects, rich is the best thing anybody can be.”

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234. “It would be easy to quit if it was just about me.”

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235. “It’s not logical for a bird to be that big,” I bite out. Really, it’s not. Tweety Bird? The love of my life. Big Bird? I don’t trust that ho. Plus, have they seen his nest? He probably hides bodies in it.”

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236. “I didn’t mention that the officer pointed his gun at me. I didn’t say something right, and now that cop’s not getting arrested.”

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237. “Shout-out to Michelle Obama. That health kick of hers made the school take the good stuff from the vending machines and made my business very lucrative.”

— Angie Thomas

238. “Claim folks need to act peaceful, but rolling through here like we in a goddamn war.”

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239. “We were ten, we didn’t know what happened after you died.”

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240. “When people die, they sometimes take the living with them.”

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241. “Besides, is it really mine if I’m not being myself?”

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242. “Whenever Momma breaks a name down like that, you better hope it’s not yours.”

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243. “I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we’d swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.”

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244. “Daddy also said there’s nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.”

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

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246. “Okay. You’re a Jar Jar Binks,” Sonny says. “Got it.”

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247. “Granny do them long prayers, man. She act like God don’t know what’s going on and it’s her job to fill him in.”

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248. “It takes a lot of nerve to go off on somebody, call them out, and tell them you love them within a span of 5 minutes.”

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249. “I’d have to do double the work to get half the respect. On top of that, I gotta be just as cutthroat, and I better not show weakness. Basically, I gotta be one of the guys and then some in order to survive.”

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250. “There are jobs, and there are jobs with benefits. Big difference. Whenever somebody in my family gets a job, the first question is, “Does it have benefits?”

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