Front St. Porter Quotes

“Dry pussy mean wack-ass nigga, and you ain't that.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“A man has two things, his name and his word. Do you hear me, Lake? Lake!”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I just really want to spend time with you. I can take you to work and pick you up, take you to the store. I’ll buy all yall groceries if you let me shop with you. Anything. I just want to be in the same space as you.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Ask God, yo. Ion know what to tell you no more. The moment I saw you, God told me… he said… Avant, this the girl that you supposed to marry. She not gonna make it easy for you like all these other hoes, though…”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Lake…if I never did anything else right in life, it was having you first. It was almost like God set this shit up perfectly bul…”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I don’t want the older me to know this me. This me is bullshit.” “Why you say that?” “I don’t like…” Lake looked down at his legs. “You don’t like what son?” “Nuffin.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Future me, you are cool, and even though you disappoint a lot, I’m still proud of you and you handsome muhfucka.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Listen me; make sure you got a BAD bitch on your arm that can hold you down. Make bookoo money! Always have your brothers’ back, especially Lake cause he always be there for us like you, Daddy. Lake a real nigga for sure. Oh! Fuck Adrianna!” He said about his mother. Hassan didn’t even correct him.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Tell Vant the man something, anything that you would think is some good shit he need to hear.” “Ummm… don’t fuck with April ugly ass no more cause she a hoe—”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I come down on you so hard because I know your potential, and I don’t like seeing you fuck up.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I love my daddy and to apologize to Sav for any bad stuff I probably did to him that I can't control.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“son. You probably gonna be on medication for the rest of your life, but no white man’s drug is stronger than the black man’s mind. You hear me?”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“That’s right. You protect your brother because this world is evil, and they think there’s something wrong with people like him, but there ain't. He just needs extra love, and that’s why you were created. You are his protection.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Always protect Dem. People be mean to him because he’s different Daddy and I don’t like it.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I got yall for life. I don’t give a fuck what it’s bout.” Lake told them, and they hugged their big brother tight. He hadn’t let them down yet and never planned on it. They were like his sons.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“If she still hate you, that’s because she never liked you to begin with, and that has nothing to do with who you are but everything to do with her not deserving to be a fuckin mother.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Yall did all that and came down looking regular as fuck?”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Dem was doing more than better. He was on track with a hell of a doctor and medication that made him still feel alive.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“The emotional ties they had to one another ran deep. When you don’t have anyone else and rely on each other for everything, life won’t make sense living without those very things that kept you alive to see another day.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“I’m saying I don’t need that for us to be together. Just being in your presence makes me feel good. Seeing you happy and smiling. That’s my pleasure.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“She not turned on by you. That mean something you doing ain't right. Dry pussy mean wack-ass nigga, and you ain't that.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“If you can't make a bitch wet, it’s not her. It’s you.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“This was why Lake didn’t know if anyone loved him. It felt conditional. It felt like she only loved him when he was doing exactly what she wanted. Lake was mentally exhausted.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“His father had given him the nickname Sav because Hassan said the moment he was born, he knew he would be a savage. Sav was the only baby in the nursery crying, waking all the other babies up, and he wreaked havoc in daycare.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“A man knew instantly if a woman was supposed to be his or not, contrary to popular belief.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“He lived by taking care of and protecting his brothers.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Me and her wasn’t fucking for a long time after she got mad cause I gave her Chlamydia and shit.” “Yous a dirty ass nigga.” Wreck laughed, and Vant shrugged, knowing it was true.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“He didn’t care about stuff like that, though. Black women could wear their hair, however, and he’d still love their fine asses. Their father told them only bitch ass niggas worried about what women did with their hair and shit.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“Lake was the oldest of the Porters; Wreck and Vant were Irish twins both, seventeen. They had two younger brothers, Dem, who was fourteen, and Sav was twelve. They all had different mothers except for Dem and Sav.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter

“A man has two things, his name and his word.”
― Nina., Front St. Porter