179 Quotes by Walter Dean Myers


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    The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

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    The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

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    Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

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    Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

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    And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

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    On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

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    I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

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