Booked Quotes

“Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“The poems
were cool.

The best ones were
like bombs,
and when all the right words

came together
it was like an explosion.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“I think being an adult must be confusing as hell.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“Books are fun, Nicholas, he says,
they're like
amusement parks
for readers.

Yeah, well, maybe
they would be fun
if I got to pick
the rides
sometimes, you answer”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“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

“putyourFACEinaBOOK”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“Bullies don’t like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“It's just hard to love someone who cancels the cable right before the Walking Dead marathon.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“callipygous.*”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“ARGGH!”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“you”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“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

“Center for Relational Recovery on a pleather”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“All because your bike
got stolen
and you lost
your cool
one night
and then
posted
that you needed
someone
to intervene
between you
and the monsters
and your cousin Julie
told your aunt
who called your dad
who texted Mom
who drove all night
and scheduled
an appointment
with St. Nick
who thinks your post
was a cry for help
when actually
you were just listening
to Eminem
and thought
the song was
kinda nice”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“Do they even have soccer in Kentucky?”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked