--- title: "1 Tell Wants Quotes By Edward Humes" description: "1 Tell Wants quotes by Edward Humes. Plus more from Edward Humes and more Tell Wants sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/edward-humes-30392_black-hole_he-wants-to-tell-her-that-he-is-not-hope_2558214.jpg" --- > [“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a number, a 300 or 600 or any hundred, but just a kid with no one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/he-wants-to-tell-her-that-he-is-not-hopeless-that-he-is-not-filled/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/edward-humes-30392_black-hole_he-wants-to-tell-her-that-he-is-not-hope_2558214.jpg) ## More by Edward Humes > [“from a child in danger to a dangerous child”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/from-a-child-in-danger-to-a-dangerous-child/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/instead-of-spending-the-time-and-the-money-and-the-manpower-on-the/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/we-are-waiting-and-waiting-and-doing-nothing-until-it-is-too-late-and/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/americans-make-more-trash-than-anyone-else-on-the-planet-throwing/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/these-kids-are-already-hard-they-don-t-need-to-be-made-harder-the/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/the-fundamental-question-juvenile-court-was-designed-to-ask-what-s/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/there-are-in-short-a-multitude-of-ways-for-trash-to-escape-and/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/there-are-two-theories-of-evolution-there-is-the-genuine-scientific/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/take-a-trip-in-my-mind-see-all-that-i-ve-seen-and-you-d-be-called-a/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“(By contrast, 15 percent of Pennsylvania is publicly owned lands, as is 44 percent of California, 68 percent of Idaho, and more than 90 percent of Alaska.) In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/by-contrast-15-percent-of-pennsylvania-is-publicly-owned-lands-as-is/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/is-it-always-in-the-interest-of-the-public-safety-to-seek-the/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/officially-he-was-no-longer-a-victim-he-was-a-criminal/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/he-wants-to-tell-her-that-he-is-not-hopeless-that-he-is-not-filled/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/it-s-not-like-they-can-take-anything-from-me-he-says-later-back-with/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) > [“Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-humes/average-household-credit-card-debt-topped-the-landmark-of-10-000-in/) [Edward Humes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-humes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tell-wants/edward-humes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Tell Wants Quotes By Edward Humes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a number, a 300 or 600 or any hundred, but just a kid with no one and nothing, and who would do anything to make it otherwise. Just tell me how, he wants to scream. He wants to tell her what it's like to have the same dream night after night, that he's playing tag with his little sister, laughing, happy - then waking up and not knowing if the image in his head is a dim memory, or just something his mind cooked up to fill the black hole. Do you know what it's like to have no past? he wants to ask. And behind it all, like a ringing in his ears, is the question that really nags at him all the time, the one that has haunted him since he was six years old and his family evaporated. He wants to ask it, then and there and for good: What did I do wrong back then? 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