Before the Ever After Quotes

“When you love a thing, little man, my dad said, you gotta love it with everything you got. Till you can’t even tell where that thing you love begins and where you end.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Before the Ever After

“You got something you love, little man? Then you good. You love food? You cook. You love clothes? You design. You love the wind and water? You sail.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Before the Ever After

“he’s not my hero, he’s my dad, which means he’s my every single thing.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Before the Ever After

“Sometimes I’m just sitting in my room and a song will come on the radio that stops something inside of me, makes me sit up straight on my bed and listen. Sometimes, it’s the piano chords, a sweet riff that has all eighty-eight keys talking. Sometimes it’s the drums—high hat telling a story—I don’t know how to explain the way music moves through my brain and my blood and my bones.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Before the Ever After