Ghost Girl in the Corner Quotes

“...and night would be falling over the ocean and all the lights would find her in the midst of the darkening world and the words would spray off her tongue like their own beam of light, and they'd find Tee and remind her of their love.
And everything would be all the hell right.”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“Tee shook her head. “You know how like … but then sometimes … and you’re just … ya know? Without any kinda … whatsoever.”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“Where’s Bennie?” Nydia said. Bennie was Sierra’s best friend, and it wasn’t like her to miss a practice. “She at some Super Saiyan dorkmeister overnight camp upstate for the week,” Sierra said. “Learning how to make robots or computers or planets or something.”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“Tee shook her head. “You know how like … but then sometimes … and you’re just … ya know? Without any kinda … whatsoever.” Sierra nodded sagely. “Precisely.” The”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“Alright, beats,” Tee said. “Mina — you want crime?” “Actually …” She squirmed in her chair and tugged at the scarf she had wrapped around her slender neck. “I was thinking — a lotta Staten Island folks, including my batshit grandma, were Brooklyn folks once upon a time. Then Great White Flight happened and they dipped, ended up on one of the islands — Staten or Long — and took their money and resources with ’em. Now they sitting there feelin’ bitter about the fact that Brooklyn ain’t theirs anymore and whining about how the bad black and brown folks took it over. Meanwhile, their young, hip counterparts are mounting an actual takeover and pricing out black and brown folks, ya know?” “Our girl just summarized thirty years of urban history in a half a ’graph,” Coruscant marveled.”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner

“computer-majiggies,”
― Daniel José Older, Ghost Girl in the Corner