Booked Quotes

“Out of the Dust
is a story
about a lanky
piano-playing girl
named Billie Jo
whose mother
is gone,
whose father’s heart
and soul
are disappearing
into the dust
that blankets
their Oklahoma town,
and even though
the first 59 pages
rain down
hard on you,
when you get
to page 60
the monsoon comes
and the book is
unputdownable.”
― Kwame Alexander

“Thought
It does not take
a math genius
to understand that
when you subtract
a mother
from the equation
what remains
is negative.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked