Ghost By Jason Reynolds Quotes

You can't run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be.

Trouble is, you can't run away from yourself." Coach snatched the towel from his shoulder, folded into a perfect square, and set it in the space between us. "Unfortunately," he said, "ain't nobody that fast.

Little. Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little. Hear me?

Because for something to make you feel tough, you gotta be a little bit scared of it at first. Then you gotta beat it." -Ghost

...and even though he said we were telling secrets that we were all going to keep, I had learned a long time ago that adults played by different rules.

Show you that you can’t run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be.

Like, for me, the best way to describe it is, I got a lot of scream inside.

And then . . . BOOM!

Don't ever let someone call your life, your dreams, little." -Mr. Charles

My dad’s in jail for trying to shoot me and my mother,” I blurted.

What is it about adults that makes them all just say the same things? Like they all studied the same book about grown-up-ness, memorizing phrases like, *Does it make it right?* and *Be the bigger person*" -Ghost

1 WORLD RECORDS CHECK THIS OUT. This dude named Andrew Dahl holds the world record for blowing up the most balloons . . . with his nose. Yeah. That’s true. Not sure how he found out that was some kinda special talent, and I can’t even imagine how much snot be in those balloons, but hey, it’s a thing and Andrew’s the best at it. There’s also this lady named Charlotte Lee who holds the record for owning the most rubber ducks. No lie. Here’s what’s weird about that: Why would you even want one rubber duck, let alone 5,631? I mean, come on. And me, well, I probably hold the world record for knowing about the most world records. That, and for eating the most sunflower seeds.

To all of my runners let this book be breath

He said we all showed promise. Well, that was something I had never heard before. That I was showing promise.

So when I was done sitting at the bus stop in front of the gym, and came across all those kids on the track at the park, practicing, I had to go see what was going on, because running ain’t nothing I ever had to practice. It’s just something I knew how to do.

(I never even knew I was a sprinter!) So guess what we were doing for practice? Sprinting. And guess who had just finished sprinting and didn’t get to take a break? Me.

My legs had pretty much clocked out, but instead of letting me just sit down and rest, Coach told me to walk it off. “Walk it off?” I asked, annoyed and confused and almost ready to cry. “Yeah, just walk around the track. It’ll cool your body down slowly.” But I didn’t want my body to cool down slowly. I wanted it to cool down immediately! So, yeah, at this point I had pretty much made up my mind that track was the dumbest sport ever. I mean you gotta move to warm up, and move to cool down? Don’t make no sense.

It just means you run three minutes at 80 percent speed, and one minute full-out. Sounds easy, right? Try doing ten of them. It’s harder than it sounds. Way harder. Trust me.