Dope Sick Quotes

“I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude.

—Lil J”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick

“Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Dope Sick