Finding Famous Quotes

“Get it together, Josie. Your voice is coming out wobblier than the Ruth Bader Ginsburg bobblehead Mrs. Lopez keeps on her desk.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Josie and the Pussycats was her favorite movie, so she went with Josie.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“I glance over to where Mary Mashad’s number is casually scribbled on a yellow sticky note clinging to the fridge, like she’s just the plumber or someone else who hasn’t won twenty-three People’s Choice Awards.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“I stare at it, my hands instinctively tapping the same rendition of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” Matt was drumming on our kitchen table earlier this morning.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Well, Bill Cosby also had America convinced he was a great guy,” I remind her. “People aren’t always how they seem.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“It’s Christmas break of seventh grade, and I know I don’t really have to do any homework. But Mrs. Zhang said if we read and did a book report on Of Mice and Men over break, we could earn twenty extra credit points. How am I supposed to pass up a deal like that?!”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“I wait for him to say something, but instead he wordlessly starts tapping his fingers to the tune of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” Oh, this must be really bad. The last time I saw him tapping his fingers this feverishly to the ’80s hit, he’d found out he was losing the club.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Now, completely out of nowhere, he bursts into giggles. Not laughs. Giggles. He’s giggling like his little sister Avery did when we watched a particularly funny episode of Peppa Pig together.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Isaac smiles. He has the world’s CUTEST smile. In The Great Gatsby, Nick described Gatsby’s smile as a smile that “understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.” Well, Isaac has that exact smile.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Sup, sexy?” Grant excitedly engulfs her in a bear hug, and I worry he might legitimately squeeze Lou to death. Before I know it, they’re aggressively making out. I know I’m a virgin and don’t know anything about this stuff, but I just don’t get how these two logistically work. Lou is so tiny, and Grant is, like, a seven-foot-tall beef castle. He’s bending down practically two feet right now just to stick his tongue down Lou’s throat! Seems like a lot of work, if you ask me.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel

“Listen, I know I’m no Genevieve Lang. But I’m okay with that. Besides, who really wants to be with a boy who only likes them because of the way they look?! Genevieve and her minions have made it abundantly clear both IRL and on their finstas that I have a mustache and that my Supercuts haircut makes me look like a young, more Middle Eastern Hillary Clinton.”
― Candice Jalili, Finding Famous: A Mashad Family Novel