John

“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

“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

“But now, like a fallen sparrow
On a golden chain,
I'm forever bound in shadow,
A prisoner to my pain.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Amiri & Odette: A Love Story

“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