Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.