Mike Friedman

“My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

“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

“Wherever your heart rests
There I will live and be blessed
I've tried to line up the things I
Needed to say but now my feelings just
Tumble from me. I am half foolish,
Half drunk with wanting you
With wanting to take your hand
And leap into the darkness of whatever
Life will bring. Love makes me
Brave and without love I'm made
Nothing.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love