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Jasmine is one of the protagonists of “Water Booger Bears” and is TJ’s best friend; she’s just returned to school after a month out sick with sickle cell anemia. She lives on Marston Street with her mom and has been best friends with TJ since he moved onto the street six years ago. This means the two are often teased at school, since many kids insist boys and girls can’t just be friends. Jasmine has relied on TJ’s sense of humor more than usual in the last year, as her parents divorced and his jokes were able to smooth things over between her parents when he visited Jasmine in the hospital. In the present, some things are just getting back to normal for Jasmine (like being able to walk home with TJ and teasing him for his prominent boogers), while other things remind her of her illness (such as TJ carrying her backpack for her, since it’s so heavy with textbooks and makeup homework). Jasmine doesn’t agree with TJ’s theory that humans are basically big boogers. Instead, she says she’d like to be a water bear, a microscopic creature that can withstand extreme conditions.
Jasmine Jordan Quotes in Look Both Ways
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1. Water Booger Bears
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That made Jasmine spit air. See, even though TJ was ridiculous and annoying and sometimes gross, she appreciated the fact that he always made her laugh whether she wanted to or not. He was always there to chip some of the hard off. Tear at the toughness Jasmine had built up over the school year.
It had been a rough one for her.
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There was a hole in the screen door that had been there for years. TJ’s foot had done that. He said sometimes his feet get mad and do things like kick or stomp or run. Don’t blame him, he’d say. And Jasmine would laugh because his jokes were always funny even though she knew they were almost never jokes.
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Jasmine Jordan Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Jasmine Jordan or refer to Jasmine Jordan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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1. Water Booger Bears
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That made Jasmine spit air. See, even though TJ was ridiculous and annoying and sometimes gross, she appreciated the fact that he always made her laugh whether she wanted to or not. He was always there to chip some of the hard off. Tear at the toughness Jasmine had built up over the school year.
It had been a rough one for her.
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There was a hole in the screen door that had been there for years. TJ’s foot had done that. He said sometimes his feet get mad and do things like kick or stomp or run. Don’t blame him, he’d say. And Jasmine would laugh because his jokes were always funny even though she knew they were almost never jokes.
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