Aaron Middlebrooks

“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: An Urban Adaptation of the Opera

“We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster

“Reading is not optional.”
― Walter Dean Myers

“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, Lockdown