Street Love Quotes

“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

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

“Forever in your arms
Is where I want to be
Holding you close
Within the space
That once held only me...
Forever in your warmth
The place for me and you
I feel the sun
Our life's just begun
I know you feel it too”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“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, Street Love

“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.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“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”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“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”
― 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

“She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“Go. Think. Turn black into white.
Night into day. I am tired of thinking.
I know where it will lead me and I don’t
Want to be there.
Go love. Do your thinking.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“Let me think
Thinking is all I have
If wisdom is a pretense
Then let me pretend to be wise”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“I am too real not to know that real will kill me
I am too street not to know what the streets hold
for me”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love

“Yeah, it’s hard, baby
It’s hard right down to the bone
I said Oh, it’s hard baby
It’s hard right down to the very bone
It’s hard when you’re a woman
And you find yourself all alone
I’ve been flapping and scrapping
And running from door to door
You know I’ve been flapping and scrapping, honey
Running from door to door”
― Walter Dean Myers, Street Love