Quotes by Melvin Burgess

You can do anything you want. You dont believe me. You think, shes out of her head. Yeah, Im out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You dont even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. Its a spell. Its magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. Theyre always saying, if you steal youre a thief, if you sleep aroung youre a slut, if you take drugs youre a junkie. They want to get inside your head and control you with their fear. ...Dont play their game. Nothing can touch you; you stay beautiful.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...

Ive done everything. All of it. You think it, Ive done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did em, I did em yesterday while you were still in bed.What about you? Whens it gonna be your turn?

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.

It wasnt a love story. -Tars dadIt was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk. -Tar

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opes a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space.