Ain't Burned All the Bright Quotes

“And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won't change the world or the way we treat the world or the way we treat each other [...]”
― Jason Griffin, Ain't Burned All the Bright

“What is life in a house underwater?”
― Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

“....So I keep peeking through a crack in the door and when he sees me he smiles because the fever ain't burned all his bright up yet and he tells me he will be wonderful in a few weeks and that we'll go back to squeeze-hugging and roughhousing and he'll be able to get through his good-bad jokes without the punchline getting stuck in his throat jabbing and hooking and he says not to worry because he's a fighter like my sister and competitive like my brother but I know he's also a worrier like me....”
― Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

“and she wipes weary from her eyes
still glued to the no-good
glued to the high-definition glare
of low-definition life”
― Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

“...and freedom to play
without worry about the
rules being rearranged”
― Jason Griffin, Ain't Burned All the Bright

“...and she wipes weary from her eyes
still glued to the no-good
glued to the high definition glare
of low-definition life”
― Jason Griffin, Ain't Burned All the Bright