Neal Shusterman quotes - page 4

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it? (Neal Shusterman)
What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?
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Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.
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Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
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When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.
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A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.
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So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.
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Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
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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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It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
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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. (Neal Shusterman)
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.
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What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?
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You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.
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On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.
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Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
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... One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
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does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
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We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
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His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.
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Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand. (Neal Shusterman)
Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.
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You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.
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In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.
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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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