Walter Dean Myers citations

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”

“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”

“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”

“Reading is not optional.”

“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.”

“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”

“My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.”