“I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.”
“But trust me, that feeling is nothing compared to the one you get when you actually help someone who didn't think that anyone ever would.”
“ I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone.”
“I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?”
“It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...”