The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone. I imagine him standing at my window, and I smile for his sake.

‘Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.’”

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, Starr,” she says. “It means you go on even though you’re scared. And you’re doing that.”