Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Impressive, isn't it?" Divan says with pride. "I purchased it from a Brazilian artist, who has apparently made a career working in flesh. He claims his artwork is to protest unwinding, but I ask you, how much of a protest can it be if he uses the unwound for his art?

What does she fear in idleness?

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

You don't so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death.

She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.

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.

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.

Instead of ignoring me, Frankie was suddenly noticing every little thing I did, wondering why I did it. Christina started asking me questions about things, like I was the smarter brother. Dad was now confiding in me about things that were really none of my business, and Mom started treating me like I was actually a responsible human being. It was all very disturbing.

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

Is it A-flat or G-sharp?

Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.

An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

No one knows wether you're a monster or a hero. Is there a third choice?

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

For once, the entire scythedom seemed to agree there was something afoot that was more important than food.

There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.

the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater - faint and ineffective, but constant.

Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you? Fine, said Nick. We're not ghosts, we're Undefined Spectral Doohickies. USDs. Are you happy now?