Walter Dean Myers Quotes

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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.

Walter Dean Myers
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

Walter Dean Myers
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
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.

Walter Dean Myers
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Walter Dean Myers
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning.... I have seen movies of prisons but never one like this. This is not a movie about bars and locked doors. It is about being alone when you are not really alone and about being scared all the time.

Walter Dean Myers
The war was not a long way from where we were; we were in the middle of it, and it was deeply within us.

Walter Dean Myers
If somebody starts messing with my game it's like they're getting into my head. But if I've got the ball it's okay, because I can take care of the situation. That's the word and I know it the same way I know my tag, Slam Yeah, that's it. Slam But without the ball, without the floorboards under my feet, without the mid-court line that takes me halfway home, you can get to me.

Walter Dean Myers
You ever have an idea that really sounds good until you do it and find out how stupid it was?

Walter Dean Myers
"My father used to call all soldiers angel warriors," he [Lieutenant Carroll] said. "Because usually they get boys to fight wars."

Walter Dean Myers