Monster Quotes

“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.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“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: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“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: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“Think about all the tomorrows of your life.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“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.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“Cases are won on closing arguments only on television, not in a real courtroom.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“They didn’t allow kids in the visiting area, which was funny. It was funny because if I wasn’t locked up, I wouldn’t be allowed to come into the visiting room.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy. Sometimes the camera moves in so close that you can’t tell what is going on and you just listen to the sounds and guess.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial

“CUT TO: ERNIE, another prisoner, sitting on john, pants down.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster

“Let me make sure you understand what’s going on. Both you and this King character are on trial for felony murder. Felony murder is as serious as it gets. Sandra Petrocelli is the prosecutor, and she’s good. They’re pushing for the death penalty, which is really bad. The jury might think they’re doing you a big favor by giving you life in prison. So you’d better take this trial very, very seriously. When you’re in court, you sit there and you pay attention. You let the jury know that you think the case is as serious as they do. You don’t turn and wave to any of your friends. It’s all right to acknowledge your mother. I have to go and talk to the judge. The trial will begin in a few minutes. Is there anything you want to ask”
― Walter Dean Myers, Monster