Neal Shusterman quotes - page 5

This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway? (Neal Shusterman)

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

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Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

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Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?" Allie considered this. "Meaning?" "Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads." "Or tails," suggested Allie. "What are youabout?" said Lief. "Life and death.

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They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

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Hole..." He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole..." And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole.

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Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.

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I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

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I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!

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I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that. (Neal Shusterman)

Forget solar energy-if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.

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Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It's all about who wields them.

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I used to be afraid of dying. Now I'm afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.

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

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And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.

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It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.

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

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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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Everything feels right with the world... ... and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

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... survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. (Neal Shusterman)

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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Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you." "You already hit him with a car.

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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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I've never really defined myself by a single identity-and in these times where identity means so much, I sometimes feel like I'm a bit of an outsider to every identity. Perhaps that makes me uniquely suited to writing about teens, who often feel on the outside.

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