Quotes from Neal Shusterman

At that moment he could have said the earth was made of chocolate pudding and I would have believed it.

Today you're in a hospital. Or at least this morning. This hour. This minute. Where you'll be three minutes from now is anyone's guess. You've begun to notice, though, that, bit by bit the sense of being outside yourself has diminished with each passing day. A critical mass is reached, and now your soul collapses in upon itself. You're back inside the vessel of your body. Just one. Just you. Just an individual. Me.

Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn't at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

Wasn't it Jacqui who told us the human body is sity percent water? Well, now I know what the rest is. The rest is dust, the rest is ash, it's sorrow and it's grief... But above all that, in spite of all that, binding us together... is hope. And joy. And a wellspring of all the things that still might be.

You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

I love you, Brew. No you don't, he said. Just shut up and take it, I told him. He smiled. Okay.

If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

She points to the door. Leave! No. So she picks up a hairbrush and throws it at him. It beans him on the head and ricochets to the wall, where it wedges behind the TV. Ow! He grabs his head, grimacing. That hurt! Good, it was supposed to.

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

They sounded like those awful people on info-holograms. It dices, it slices! But wait! There's more!

Bring on the dancing bear!

Then his eyes glazed over for a second. 'I go places sometimes,' he told me, his voice as thready as his eyes. 'Don't know why I go places... I just do.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.

Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk.

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have. The better to style with, my dear.

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch

When your parents turn you in to the Juvenile Authority - and they will - I will not shed a single tear for you, Connor Lassiter.

If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.