Monster By Walter Dean Myers Quotes

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.

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.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

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.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?

Cases are won on closing arguments only on television, not in a real courtroom.

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.

They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other.

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.

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.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

CUT TO: ERNIE, another prisoner, sitting on john, pants down.

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