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AFTER THE SHOTS me and Tony waited like we always do, for the rumble to stop, before picking our heads up and poking our heads out to count the bodies. This time there was only one. Shawn.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“Anagram is when you take a word and rearrange the letters to make another word. And sometimes the words are still somehow connected ex: Canoe = Ocean. Same letters, different words, somehow still make sense together, like brothers.” (Long Way Down Quotes)
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“And even though his face was wet with tears he wasn’t supposed to cry when he was alive, I couldn’t see him as anything less than my brother, my favorite, my only.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“And you know it’s weird to know a person you don’t know and at the same time not know a person you know, you know?”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES
Jason Reynolds
They weren’t meant to be broken. They were meant for the broken to follow.”
Long Way Down
“But if the blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it on the outside of them.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
DON’T NOBODY believes nothing these days which is why I haven’t told nobody the story I’m about to tell you.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
HE HELD THAT CORNER for a day, for a week, for a month, full-out
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
How do you tell water ain’t nothing funny about drowing?
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
I LOOKED AROUND only seeing the orange glow of five cigarettes puncturing the sheet of smoke like headlights in heavy fog. Only five cigarettes. Shawn hadn’t lit one, became invisible in the cloud. And I felt like the cigarette meant for him was burning in my stomach, filling me withstinging fire.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“I swear sometimes it feels like God be flashing photos of his children, awkward, amazing, tucked in his wallet for the world to see. But the world don’t wanna see no kids, and God ain’t no pushy parent so he just folds and snaps us shut.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
I’VE NEVER BEEN in an earthquake. Don’t know if this was even close to how they are, but the ground definitely felt like it opened up and ate me.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“Just remember, when you’re walking in the nighttime, make sure the nighttime ain’t walking into you.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
Like I was holding my breath. Maybe I was. Maybe I was hoping I could give some back to Shawn.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“My Mother used to say, I know you’re young, gotta get it out, but just remember, when you’re walking in the nighttime, make sure the nighttime ain’t walking into you.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“People always love people more when they’re dead.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
Pusher, money-making pretty boy, target for a ruthless young hustler whose name Mom can neverremember.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
Shawn’s dead. So strange to say. So sad. But I guess not surprising, which I guess is even stranger, and even sadder.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
The sound you hear in your head, the one people call ears ringing, sounds less like a bell, and more like a flatline.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“Weird talking to my dad like he was a stranger even though we hugged like family.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
WHAT YOU THINK YOU SHOULD DO? he asked. Follow The Rules, I said just like I told everybody else. Just like you did.
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
“When bad things happen we can usually look up and see the moon, big and bright, shining over us. That always made me feel better. Like there’s something up there beaming down on us in the dark.”
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
