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“I’m just as pissed as anybody, but this? This isn’t it. Not for me.”

“A hairbrush is not a gun!” ...and I’m crying again.

And I love the concept of a bullhorn as a weapon.

“Part of me is like, what about Uncle Carlos the cop? But this isn’t about him or his coworkers who do their jobs right. This is about 115, this detectives with their bull sh** questions, and those cops who made Daddy lie on the ground. F**k them.”

“...I learned that people make mistakes. And you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

Tearing up again... Starr’s dad, ordered by police on the ground...

This incident... why is this situation escalating!?!?

This book has me tearing up again. Everyone at her school is protesting Khalil’s death but Starr is still attending class even though she’s the person who best understands just how wrong it was.

“Sometimes you can do everything right, and things will still go wrong.”

Khalil’s Grandma made me cry; she’s the kind of loving that I want to be.