Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Hayden shouts, To the new Teen Uprising!

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

Luck is for losers. You have history on your side. You have gravity. You have authority. You are the Granddame of Death.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

There's this thing that happens with a mob. It's called "deindividuation." It's the kind of thing that happens when a cop puts on a uniform, or when you wear a pair of sunglasses so people can't quite see your eyes. It's like you slip out of your normal self—and it makes you feel different. Behave different. So what happens when you're just another thirsty soul in sea of water-zombies? You become one.

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

We are not the same beings we once were. So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?

Really? Risa said, disgusted. 'What do we have here?' Is that your best line? If you're going to attack a defenseless girl in an alley, at least try not to be cliché about it.

This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He pointed to his chest. 'I keep truth here. Not in other people's ears.' ?The Night Butcher

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

If every part of you is alive but inside someone else . . . are you alive or are you dead?

Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end. Avalon scowled at him. You can't do that. Try me, Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. One in five.

Lev bends down and takes the tranq gun away from the cop Connor has just rendered unconscious. I came to save you. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!

The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.

Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while, Alyssa says. Then she adds, Yesterday, too.

Love remains mortal

His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe

Although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it?