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It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
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Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?
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And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.
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There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.
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Think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?
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Apparently Quinn had woken up a short time ago and immediately asked for ice cream, knowing that kids in hospitals got whatever they wanted.
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Beautiful is dangerous.
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I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't
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You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.
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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.
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When it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.
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(T)his could be the big inning of a wonderful friendship.
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Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.
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It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.
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still I cast my voice out into the void, hoping to reach something beyond distance
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They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
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Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.
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But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.
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She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.
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Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.
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You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
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Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.
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(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)
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We are not the enemy," he says. "That's what the enemy always says.
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(B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.
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And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.
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Is that why you're here?" Ben blurted "To glean one of us?" Scythe Faraday offered an unreadable smile. "I'm here for dinner.
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If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation
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Nice socks" - Neal Shusterman
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The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.
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But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.
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If every part of you is alive but inside someone else ... are you alive or are you dead?
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That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind" "Yes, she's illegally blind
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The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face
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war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other." The
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First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.
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Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest
that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. — Neal Shusterman
that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. — Neal Shusterman
Here, it seemed muscle wasn't made of flesh and blood, it was made of will and anger.
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He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
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Walls don't fall without effort.
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There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn't have been there.
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Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.
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Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.
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This is my third time here," she confides in me. "My third episode."
"Episode."
"That's what they call it."
"More like miniseries. — Neal Shusterman
"Episode."
"That's what they call it."
"More like miniseries. — Neal Shusterman
She leaves him alone with the arm. His arm. An arm that bears the unmistakable tattoo of a tiger shark.
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At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.
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I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.
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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.
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The building was no warmer than the street outside, and it smelled like something died in there from smelling something else that died in there.
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AWOL's most valuable commodity: hope. It's something in short supply for those who have been deemed not worth the sum of their parts.
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Nelson tries not to react, but he knows that by not saying anything, his greed has expressed itself.
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I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget.
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I'm scared," he says.
"I know," says the nurse.
"I want you all to go to Hell."
"That's natural. — Neal Shusterman
"I know," says the nurse.
"I want you all to go to Hell."
"That's natural. — Neal Shusterman
It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor — Neal Shusterman
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor — Neal Shusterman
The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?
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We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.
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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.
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In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket ... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow
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How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
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Have you ever considered how lonely it is to be the girl on a pedestal?
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I must be doing something right if the crazies think I'm as powerful as the Antichrist.
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I love you, Brew." "No you don't," he said. "Just shut up and take it," I told him. He smiled. "Okay.
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What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?
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Can I believe in that God too?
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One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
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We want what you no longer want.
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Griping is for those without a plan of action...
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It wasn't just that he didn't see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.
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The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.
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Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.
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Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.
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This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
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What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?
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The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can't bother anyone, especially me.
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Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.
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People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness all our lives.
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Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.
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The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
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Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.
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Exactly," says the parrot. "WHY are you here? Or should I ask 'Why are YOU here?' Or 'Why are you HERE?
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To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.
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As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.
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I wish you could have felt that slap I wish you could feel the pain.
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It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?
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Definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?
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The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.
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