Giselle Gonzalez

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

“Can you become
The hope I need? Can you help me be
More than it is written in my future
Or past? Is there another me to find?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“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

“Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you.

—Mr. Hooft”
― Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown