John

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“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: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“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