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21 " Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were. "
― Walter Dean Myers ,
22 " The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. "
― Walter Dean Myers , Monster
23 " I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was. "
― Walter Dean Myers , Riot
24 " he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. "
25 " I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway? "
26 " The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie. "
27 " Think about all the tomorrows of your life. "
28 " We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us. "
― Walter Dean Myers , Carmen
29 " If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game. "
― Walter Dean Myers , Game
30 " No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important. "
31 " We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves. "
32 " Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are. "
33 " What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt. "
34 " My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. "
35 " Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down. "
36 " I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that? "
37 " Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life. "
― Walter Dean Myers , All the Right Stuff
38 " Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if you're not ready to die today, then you're going to be responsible for tomorrow, whether you like it or not. "
39 " There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world. "
40 " She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic "
― Walter Dean Myers , Street Love