The Streets Quotes

“Just as there are broken people, there are broken places on this earth. Some have always been broken. All cities have such neighborhoods at their edges, and this city is all edges … block after block of bleakly hopeless outskirts. People don’t bury dead cities. They abandon them. They abandon them to the poorest of the poor, to the lost and the doomed.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“Hope can be the cruelest thing. But it was all she had.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“It takes courage to look up. Courage just to want something,”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“They were all so young and so aware of it. Youth comprised their sole asset, which each understood, and such knowledge excited them as much as it haunted them.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“They imbibed. It never went far, not among so many, but their naturally frantic edge amplified it, whatever the euphoric, pushed it until giddiness mutated into a sort of epiphany – a pack ritual. And rituals have power.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“Maybe a person had to lose everything to find purpose.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets

“Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.”
― Robert Dunbar, The Streets