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Ace of Spades Quotes
Ace of Spades
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“The people at the top in high school get into the best colleges, get the best jobs, go on to run the country, and win Nobel Prizes. The rest end up with dead-end jobs, heart failure, and then have to start an affair with their assistant to create some excitement in their otherwise dull lives.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I’m tired of having faith things will work out, only for any hope I have to be violently crushed.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I feel destined to drop out of high school, stay here, in this house in this room, listening to Ma pray to a god who covers his ears when she chants.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I didn’t get voted Head Prefect for no reason,” I say. “You got voted because you kiss teachers’ asses—and I’m not irrational,” Devon mutters.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“hate that these systems, all this institutional shit, can get to me. I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything. If it isn’t Niveus that does it, any one of them could get us.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Well even if you wanted to be sad about it...you're not a bad person. Just human”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I think about how many Black spirits have been killed by white supremacy and lies. How many of us were experiments. Worthless bodies in some game.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Home, lately, has been the highlight of my day.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“There are moments when something happens, and puzzle pieces that didn’t connect before now fit together”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do.—Aces”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Jamie thinks the world is his to control. That he can tell me, convince me, how to think and how to feel, like I’m some puppet. I used to believe it—get swept up in it. But it’s getting harder and harder not to see past his lies; that he’s anything other than selfish; that he cares.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Dreaming is dangerous. But I allow myself to this time. I think we deserve a happy ending.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“when I think about the other reasons we broke up. I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping the tears that desperately want to fall don’t. Scotty seeing me cry would be another victory for him and a loss for me.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I knew about Chiamaka, believe it or not. Scotty cheated on me with some other guys at parties he went to. His”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Ava listened to me talk about Jamie while knowing all along he was dating Belle?”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Did you know he was dating Belle?” I ask. Ruby’s smile fades a little. “Just found out.” I nod. Ruby’s always been a terrible liar.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“But this year, I will get everything I want, and Belle will soon be a thing of the past. I just need a chance to show Jamie how wrong she is for him.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Just in. Looks like Chi’s not so sweet. Sources say she got caught trying to steal candy. Careful, Chi, don’t want a record Yale will see …—Aces”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Just in. Porn is easy to come by these days. You either search for it online or it falls right in your lap when you least expect it to.—Aces”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“Our school lies between two worlds: the side of town where the rich people live, and then our side, where people can’t afford food or health care.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I dream about Ma not being so busy, having time to just listen, to talk, so I can tell her all the shit I’ve been hiding from her for years.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I dream about Pa coming home someday. We go out for pizza and he just tells me a bunch of life lessons. We catch up on missed time.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“In my dreams she listens, and still loves me afterward. But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope. I know, I fucking know that even if my pa wasn’t in prison, he wouldn’t be here for me anyway.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“perfectly. Maybe the piece I’d failed to connect was the one where I thought that Jamie was any different from Ava or Ruby. That he ever really loved me or valued our friendship. Nothing he ever told me was true. I was stupid not to have realized that sooner, blinded by the idea that”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“in his bedroom. I remember thinking He likes me as he pulled away. Then time winds forward. I remember stumbling, his arms wrapping around me, holding me close, and me thinking He likes me, us kissing, He likes me, my eyes still wet, heart beating fast for no reason.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“And I’m so tired of you pretending things didn’t happen!” My face heats up. I hate the way he looks at me, so unbothered by”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“everything. “Things like the accident.” His eyes darken, eyebrows knitting together. “What accident?” he asks, his tone changing, deeper than before. That shuts me up. He leans in close, whispering, “You should think before you open your mouth, Chi. People might start to think”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I remember arriving, meeting Jamie, feeling on top of the world. I remember Jamie handing me a drink, wrapping his arms around me, asking me to meet him”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“someone could actually love a person like me. Maybe what I thought was Jamie’s love was never love at all. They say love and hate are the same, just at different ends of the blade. I hesitate, before drawing up the list of suspects in my mind and adding Jamie’s”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“I can “fix” the kinks in my hair, but not the kinks in this whole system that hates me and Devon and everyone who looks like us.”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
