Neal Shusterman Quotes

Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan.

I'm just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?

Unwinds exist in the constant shadow of betrayal.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.

Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Apparently Quinn had woken up a short time ago and immediately asked for ice cream, knowing that kids in hospitals got whatever they wanted.

You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions.

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.

Cowards hide [ ... ] but warriors lie and wait [ ... ] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can't bother anyone, especially me.

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

We want what you no longer want.

I love you, Brew." "No you don't," he said. "Just shut up and take it," I told him. He smiled. "Okay.

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear.

Nice socks" - Neal Shusterman

Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest
that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Everything has meaning, or nothing has meaning. Which world would you rather live in?

No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

I think it's outrageously cruel to keep a puzzle that they know is missing a single piece.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.

We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face

But honey, there are some things that must never be said out loud.

The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.

The kind of people who can't bend without breaking

The smile on my face is only there to mask what I'm feeling inside.

The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

#5) YOU ARE BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WOULD UNWIND YOU. RISE TO THE OCCASION.

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity." And then, looking him in the eye, said, "And I'll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

We can't create what we don't understand, so until we understand what life is, how can we ever create it?

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me.

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

There are times I feel like I'm the kid screaming at the bottom of the well, and my dog runs off to pee on trees instead of getting help.

Chain of command knows no age restrictions," he once told Connor. "You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

They are not people
they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.

WFor to put oneself above the law is a fundamental recipe for disaster.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

But it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?

Being ignored has its advantages. Dignity doesn't grow under a microscoope.

The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Well ... you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.

#1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.

It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.

Love turns a heart to crystal ... Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action," he said. "I prefer the glory of heroism amidst panic.

The pain of knowing is killing me more than killing me would kill me, so I jump just to end it.

When faced with the end of all things, it was much easier to nibble at it than take it in large, indigestible bites.

think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No
the soul of a man.

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Anyway, don't they have girls your age down there?"
Talon shrugged. "Yeah ... but none of them ever sprayed me with eye-poison.

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. I like your dolphin.

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We