Lisa Moore Ramée > Quotes

“Not everything that is faced can be changed,’” Daddy says, and then Hana cuts in and says, “‘But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― Lisa Moore Ramee, A Good Kind of Trouble

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. . . .”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“Wake up, people! This is your life you’re living. You can’t sleep through it.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“Okay, like if you eat unhealthy food a long time, you’re going to be unhealthy, right? Well, for too long people have been fed a diet about Black folks. About folks with brown skin. Making them think we’re scary. And that’s how the police have been trained to act. It’s going to take a long time to change people’s minds.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“In junior high, we run a mile every week and we're supposed to get faster each time. Logically, there has to be a point when this is physically impossible, but Coach West doesn't seem to think so.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“crime.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“And I like saying something, even if I'm saying it quietly.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“allergic”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“When I think too much about Jace, I feel happy and sad at the same time.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“hyperventilate.”
― Lisa Moore Ramee, A Good Kind of Trouble

“tingle.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“I can't help worrying, and today worrying feels a whole lot like being mad.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“Isabella”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“That's the problem with a three-way friendship. When one of us is missing, it's hard to talk about anything important.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble

“She looks proud of me, and that feels like maple syrup sliding down my throat.”
― Lisa Moore Ramée, A Good Kind of Trouble