The Taking of Jake Livingston
Ryan Douglass
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, you can’t change yourself. So you have no choice but to be yourself. Fuck everyone who has a problem with it.”
“Black people are always the punch line of a joke--it's maybe why none of the books we read have Black people in them unless they're slaves.”
“And most days? I can’t figure out what I hate more: seeing the dead or being the only one Black eleventh grader at St. Clair Prep.”
“My room has one window, and a bed and a closet. A place to sleep, a place to hide, a place to escape.”
“It seems impossible to turn something so pretty so ugly, but it’s not. Everything turns ugly after it’s dead.”
“It’s amazing how many people don’t wanna look racist and how few care about actually being it.”
“I always feel like I’m learning slower than everyone around me what exactly I’m supposed to like and how I’m supposed to be.”
“But it’s hard for me sometimes to waste time wondering where I’ll go once I leave home when I can barely figure out how to manage my day-to-day life.”
“What does someone have to think about themselves to wear a crown in their aura? To be a king?”
“The trouble with my mother is she’s too busy pretending problems don’t exist to ever really fix them.”
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