Sunny Quotes

“Coach ran over to me. He said he could see it in my face. I had no idea what he was talking about. Coach explained that he could see… sound. In my face. In my body. He told me I needed to let it out. I needed to scream.”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“So I paused. Just gathered my thoughts, which you know is sometimes hard for me to do because they are all over my head. Some are in the back and some are in the front and some are tucked just behind my ears, and others pressing hard against my eyes. And a few, I think, are at the tip-top of my head. Thoughts that want to sprout out and be like antennas or something like that—maybe they would find a signal to clear up the picture—”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“Crying is crying like laughing is laughing”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“She said that don’t make sense. I wanted to tell her sense don’t have to be made. It already exists.”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“Crying is crying like laughing is laughing like sense don’t never have to be made because it just is.”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“At the hospital we never have to sign in. Ever. It’s like we’re VIP people or something. VIP. Not VIP people. That would be Very Important People people. And even though I consider myself kind of a people person, I’m not a very important person person. Just a VIP. Actually not even a VIP. Just a kid who doesn’t have to sign in at the hospital because everybody, especially Ms. Melinda, who sits at the front desk, knows I’m Dr. Lancaster’s grandson.”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny

“My TV dinner tasted like a commercial break.
And not a funny one, but one of the ones about life insurance.”
― Jason Reynolds, Sunny